Thank you and good
evening, ladies and gentlemen.
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On September 11, 2001,
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the world tingled as
we pricked up our ears
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and listened to
the shocking news
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bulletins coming
out of New York City
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and then from the
Pentagon, Washington D.C.
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as the newscaster said,
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"Terrorists hijacked
planes, the Twin Towers,
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the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon."
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It was like a plot
from some horror movie.
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What kind of people
would do something like this?
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And we thought, "What if I had
been on one of those planes?"
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Jeannie's mother was flying out
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from Dulles
Airport in Washington D.C.
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to the West Coast
that very morning.
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And you'll all remember that
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when the attack hit in New York,
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all flights were
immediately grounded.
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Where was mother?
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We knew our little lady
6-year-old Evelyn had landed
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somewhere in the
country, but where was she?
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I don't know, Jeannie,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 hours went by,
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we worried and what relief
when we finally discovered
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that her plane had
landed in Kansas City.
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But tonight we're
still reeling in shock
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from the aftermath of
the attack on America.
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You know, suddenly
the flight on planet earth
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has gotten a whole
lot more bumpy, hasn't it?
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Anthrax, Jihad, words we
didn't know two years ago.
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The world tonight is on tiptoe.
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Wall Street is
holding its breath.
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The fuse is lit and
burning and everyone is watching
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the Middle East,
wondering something is coming,
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something of epic proportions,
our worried world waits.
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In fact, the
pundits now say that
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our future is so frightening
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that something greater than man,
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a power above man, outside man
must alter the collision course
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that our great
nations are now taking.
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But, Ladies and Gentlemen,
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during this very program tonight
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it is my purpose to actually
identify this needed force.
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So that from now on you'll
be able to read your newspaper
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with a brand new perspective
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and see world events
in a brand new light.
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You tonight are on the verge
of a truly thrilling discovery.
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Now strange it might seem
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to properly identify this power.
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It's necessary to go
back in history 2,600 years
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and take a look at one
of the shrewdest cartoons
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of world history ever produced.
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And no wonder God Himself
produced it and designed it.
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I want you to go
back with me tonight
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to the splendors of an
ancient eastern palace,
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wherein one night
a great world monarch
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had a most remarkable dream.
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We find that recorded in
the Book of Daniel Chapter 2.
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Now this dazzling young monarch
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just happens to be
Saddam Hussein's hero.
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Maybe you read
it in Time Magazine
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a couple of years-- by the way,
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today is Saddam
Hussein's birthday, he is 66.
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Nebuchadnezzar is that
king that Saddam Hussein
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has patterned
his whole life after.
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He was the king
of ancient Babylon,
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who'd forged together that
great world empire Babylon,
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determined to
establish an eternal dynasty.
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He even went to
the pains of stamping
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his own name on
every single brick
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that they used in the
construction of Babylon.
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By the way, if you win
the prize on "Jeopardy"
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or the "Wheel of Fortune"
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and you would happen to be
sent over to Baghdad next week.
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Did you know that
tourists can still buy
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an original brick
from ancient Babylon
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with Nebuchadnezzar's
name stamped on it?
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And that proud
monarch was determined
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Babylon would
always rule the world.
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That's why Saddam
likes him as his alter ego.
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And thinking of
his empire to come,
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one night King
Nebuchadnezzar fell asleep
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and he dreamed a dream.
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Verse 1 says, in
Daniel Chapter 2.
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And in that dream,
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the Bible says, he
saw terrible things.
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He saw rise and
fall of political empires
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crashing one after another.
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In his terror, he awakened
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and he cried out
in that palace bedroom
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and his Taliban guards and aides
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and the Secret Service agents
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came rushing in,
"What is it, king?
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What is it?"
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"Oh, I've had a
dream, awful dream.
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Terrifying things
are about to come.
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It's so ominous. I feel sick."
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"Well, what is it? Tell us."
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The king said, "Quick!
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Call the wise
men, the astrologers."
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In the ancient days, dreams
were very important to them.
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So, fortunetellers were employed
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to foretell the future.
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So here they came, the
brains-trust of the empire.
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Some of them
were mathematicians,
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astronomers, scientists,
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all with their fancy degrees
and PhDs and Fiddle-dee-dees,
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Lecanomancy, Belomancy,
Necromancy, Hepatoscopy.
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And they said, "What
is it? What is it, King?"
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Daniel 2:3 says,
"Oh, I've had a dream
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and my spirit is
anxious to know the dream."
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Now mind you,
these men were like
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our 21st Century
Harvard graduates.
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They were Wall
Street's market analysts.
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In Daniel 2:4, they said,
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"...O King, your
majesty, live forever!"
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Now you just go
ahead "Tell us your dream,
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and we will give
you the interpretation."
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The king said, now
listen, that's the very point.
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I've forgotten the dream.
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You divines, you
claim to have some
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direct
communication with the Gods.
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You tell me my dream.
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And verses 5 and 6
record the desperate struggle
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between the so-called wise men,
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who everybody could see now
were clearly stalling for time,
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and the king who demanded.
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"My decision is firm.
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If you do not make
known to me the dream,
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and its interpretation,
you shall be cut in pieces
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and your houses
shall be made an ash heap.
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Therefore tell me the
dream and its interpretation."
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Oh, come on, King.
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Just tell us a
little bit of the dream.
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You tell me the dream
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or I'll have the
whole bunch of you
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religious hypocrites killed.
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"O King," verses 10 and 11 says,
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"There's not a man on earth
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who can tell the king's matter."
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And they were right.
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No king, or Lord, or
rulers ever asked anything
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of any magician or
astrologer or Chaldean.
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They said, "No, there's no other
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who can tell it to
the king except the Gods,
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whose dwelling
is not with flesh."
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And the king
roars. "Slay them all!
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Execute every last one of them!"
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Daniel 2:13, it says,
"So the decree went out,
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and they began
killing the wise men..."
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But now at the court of
Babylon during this very time
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happened to live
the young God-fearing
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Jewish prophet by
the name of Daniel.
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And he has three companions,
we know them by name Shadrach,
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Meshach, and Abednego.
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They had been captured
by Nebuchadnezzar's armies
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during one of its
campaigns against Jerusalem.
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And so they were now
prisoners of war, POWs.
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But because of
their superior IQ,
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they weren't made
slaves or killed in genocide.
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These three Hebrews
and Daniel were training
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as future "aides" for the king.
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I don't know why,
but for some reason
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Daniel and his three friends
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hadn't been called
in for Nebuchadnezzar's
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"midnight madness" consultation.
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So when the Attorney-General
whose name was Arioch
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and his soldiers
came to arrest Daniel,
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the Bible tells us
that this winsome young man
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Daniel responded
with very gracious tact.
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Arioch, we're friends,
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I mean, this seems
very harsh and abrupt.
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That's unlike the king.
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What's the matter?
Well, Daniel, I'm very sorry.
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Kind of in a hurry, but I guess
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the king had too
much pizza last night.
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Daniel 2:24 says, Daniel says,
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"But don't destroy
the wise men of Babylon.
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If you'll just grant a
temporary stay of execution
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and then take me to the king.
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Arioch, both the
dream and the interpretation
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can be made known to the king."
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It's a very fascinating
drama that unfolds here
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as the king actually
grants Daniel's request.
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And Daniel heads home and
he spends the entire night
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in prayer with his companions.
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But that night, that very night
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God revealed the secret
dream to him in a vision.
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And the next
morning, Daniel calls Arioch
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on his cell
phone, if he had one.
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Daniel 2:24,
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"Arioch, don't execute
the wise men of Babylon.
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Take me to the king,
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and I will
interpret his dream for him."
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Can you see Daniel getting up,
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putting on his tails and bowtie
or whatever he wore back then,
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but he steps
into the throne room.
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And the king, he's already heard
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a little bit about
this and he flatters Daniel,
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and he says,
"Well, young man Daniel,
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I understand you are
pretty wise, pretty smart.
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You're able to
tell me what I dreamed?"
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"Oh, just a
minute," says Daniel.
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"I want you to know, I
didn't come up with this."
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Notice verses 27 and 28.
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"The secret which
the king has demanded,
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the wise men, the
astrologers, the magicians,
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and the soothsayers
cannot declare to the king.
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But there is a God in
heaven who reveals secrets,
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and He has made known to
the King Nebuchadnezzar," What?
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"What will be in
the latter days..."
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King, when it comes to
foretelling the future,
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the brains-trust of
your empire of mankind
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is like Enron and WorldCom.
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But, O King, God
has taken this occasion
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to outline through your dream
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the history of the world
for more than 2,600 years."
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Really, the king says. He
leans forward on his throne.
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Go ahead.
Daniel, what did I see?
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And he listens
intently as loudly and clearly,
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Daniel begins to
speak in Daniel 2:29.
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"Your majesty,
as for you, O King,
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thoughts came to your
mind while you're on your bed,
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about what would
come to pass after this,
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and He who reveals secrets
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has made known to
you what will be."
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Oh, yes, Daniel, go
ahead. What did I dream?
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Verse 31, "You O
king, were watching,
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and behold, a great image!"
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This image, whose
splendor was excellent,
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stood before you,
and its form was awesome.
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That's where the kids
get that term, awesome.
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Oh, Daniel, yes, yes,
that's it, an awesome image.
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"This image's head was of gold,
its chest and arms of silver,
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its belly and thighs of
brass, its legs of iron,
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its feet partly of
iron and partly of clay."
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And amazed, Nebuchadnezzar
listens, Danny, D anny boy,
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you've got it,
yes, you got it again!
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That's just as I saw it.
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Verses 34 and
35, Daniel continues,
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"You watched while a
stone was cut out without hands,
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which struck the image
on its feet of iron and clay
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and broke them in pieces.
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And then the iron, the clay,
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the bronze, the
silver, and the gold
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were crushed
together and became like chaff
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from the summer
threshing floors,
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the wind carried them away
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so that no trace
of them was found."
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That's right, says the King.
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That dream, it ended
with that mysterious stone
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hurtling out of
somewhere in space
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and it struck
that image on its feet
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and just shattering and grinding
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the whole statue to powder
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so that it was so fine,
the wind just blew it away.
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Verse 35, "And the
stone that struck the image
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became a great mountain
and filled the whole earth."
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Daniel looks at the king.
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The king is
looking back at Daniel.
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He's still leaning forward
on the edge of his throne.
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And his face kind of brightens
and he says, "Yes, that's it!
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That's the dream
exactly as I saw it!
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Amazing.
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It is all coming
back now, every detail.
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This metal man,
each different metal
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less in value is descend
from the head to the toe,
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there is gold, and
then there is silver,
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then brass, then iron,
then iron mixed with clay.
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Perhaps someone
though asks tonight,
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but what possible significance
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can this obscure
2,600 year old dream
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have upon today's news on Iraq?
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Oh, my friend, wrapped
up in this strange image
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are hidden certain salient facts
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that are capable of transforming
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our entire
outlook on the future.
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Oh, but you say,
what does it mean?
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That is the
question Nebuchadnezzar asked
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and said the young
prophet in verse 36.
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"This is the dream.
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Now we will tell
the interpretation..."
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Now please, friend, notice.
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I'm not going to place
some modern interpretation
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on this musty old dream.
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It was interpreted for us
on the spot 2,500 years ago.
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So again the king nervously
00:13:55.27\00:13:57.42
changes his
position on his throne
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and he listens as
in just a few words,
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God sketched history
from Babylon's time 600 years
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before Christ to the
final climax of earth's history.
00:14:07.04\00:14:12.48
And Daniel looks
squarely at King Nebuchadnezzar,
00:14:12.51\00:14:14.88
ruler of this world's
first Universal Kingdom,
00:14:14.91\00:14:17.88
and he declares, "Your majesty,
00:14:17.91\00:14:21.13
here's what this dream means."
00:14:21.16\00:14:22.78
Verse 38,
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"You, oh king, are
this head of gold."
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Babylon. Oh, the king smiles.
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That's fine. Babylon the Golden.
00:14:35.07\00:14:38.82
That fits. Babylon the great.
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The king was thrilled to think
00:14:40.94\00:14:42.08
that he was at
the top of that image.
00:14:42.11\00:14:43.96
Babylon was the golden
kingdom of a golden age.
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And in fact you
look into history
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and you find that
they used gold everywhere.
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When you went to
school you learned
00:14:50.91\00:14:52.74
that the fabulous
hanging gardens of Babylon
00:14:52.77\00:14:55.57
were one of the seven
wonders of the ancient world.
00:14:55.60\00:14:58.76
They had a 150 foot
wide streets, all paved,
00:14:58.79\00:15:03.22
crisscrossing each
other at right angles.
00:15:03.25\00:15:05.75
In fact they had a
subterranean tunnel
00:15:05.78\00:15:08.27
underneath the Euphrates River,
00:15:08.30\00:15:09.70
that's were Saddam got
that idea of all those tunnels
00:15:09.73\00:15:12.57
and it was connecting
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two of the royal
palaces way back then.
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They had a food
supply on hand for 20 years
00:15:16.58\00:15:19.06
in case of enemy attack.
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Babylon the Golden.
Babylon the impregnable.
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They would never
fail, they were eternal...
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they thought.
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As Daniel talked, the
king was really enjoying
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the thought of
his supremacy up there
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at the top, this head of gold.
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All this fits,
Daniel. I'm that head of gold.
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Why don't you just go right
on with this wonderful forecast?
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Verse 39, Daniel
said, "But, king, after you
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will arise another
kingdom inferior to yours..."
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What?
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Come on, now get
real, an inferior kingdom
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conquer Babylon
and rule the world?
00:16:03.16\00:16:05.10
It cannot be.
00:16:05.13\00:16:06.65
Never will an inferior kingdom
00:16:06.68\00:16:08.39
tumble Babylon
and rule the world.
00:16:08.42\00:16:11.14
But archaeologists
have excavated clay tablets
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inscribed with some pretty
pompous words by Nebuchadnezzar
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and this is actually
from history I'm quoting.
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"The fortifications
of Esagila and Babylon,
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I strengthened and established
the name of my reign forever."
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That is precisely
why Saddam Hussein
00:16:29.14\00:16:31.11
once said to the press,
00:16:31.14\00:16:32.73
"Nebuchadnezzar is my hero
00:16:32.76\00:16:34.94
because no one
will ever take Baghdad."
00:16:34.97\00:16:39.94
But the Bible says,
00:16:43.20\00:16:44.44
the proud
Nebuchadnezzar in Chapter 4:30,
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"spoke saying, 'Is
not this great Babylon
00:16:47.25\00:16:50.28
that I have built
for a royal dwelling
00:16:50.31\00:16:52.88
by my mighty power and
for the honor of my majesty?'"
00:16:52.91\00:16:57.47
But God's Holy Word
said that another power
00:16:57.50\00:17:01.55
would achieve world supremacy
00:17:01.58\00:17:03.08
and supersede the
golden kingdom of Babylon.
00:17:03.11\00:17:06.10
In fact God's
word even identified
00:17:06.13\00:17:08.20
that next power for Daniel.
00:17:08.23\00:17:10.87
In Daniel 8:20 and 5:28,
00:17:10.90\00:17:15.33
God names this
power as Medo-Persia.
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Did this happen?
00:17:20.27\00:17:22.28
You know world
history, you know that it did.
00:17:22.31\00:17:24.87
In fact Daniel lived
long enough to see it happen.
00:17:24.90\00:17:28.12
But history tells us
00:17:28.15\00:17:29.22
that it was an
unusual dual power and empire.
00:17:29.25\00:17:33.18
Well, how did that happen?
00:17:33.21\00:17:34.81
It happened during
the reign of Belshazzar,
00:17:34.84\00:17:37.30
who was the very arrogant
00:17:37.33\00:17:38.62
and proud
grandson of Nebuchadnezzar.
00:17:38.65\00:17:42.82
Cyrus the Mede, he
laid siege to Babylon.
00:17:42.85\00:17:46.71
But the Babylonians scoffed,
00:17:46.74\00:17:48.46
they had walls 387
feet high and 87 feet thick.
00:17:48.49\00:17:53.27
They scoffed at
those armies of Cyrus
00:17:53.30\00:17:55.77
gathered outside
the walls of Babylon.
00:17:55.80\00:17:57.57
No problem.
00:17:57.60\00:17:59.57
There was no way
Babylon could fall.
00:17:59.60\00:18:02.41
But God said Babylon would
succumb to a lesser nation.
00:18:02.44\00:18:07.27
In fact he predicted
that Cyrus would do the work.
00:18:07.30\00:18:11.39
How? By strategy.
00:18:11.42\00:18:14.86
History tells us, on
October 13, 539 B.C.,
00:18:14.89\00:18:19.55
that that great
golden kingdom of Babylon
00:18:19.58\00:18:22.53
came crashing down and it
collapsed in just one night.
00:18:22.56\00:18:28.74
How?
00:18:28.77\00:18:29.80
Well, God had
prophesied it 200 years before
00:18:29.83\00:18:33.46
through the Prophet
Isaiah, in Isaiah 45:1.
00:18:33.49\00:18:36.57
"Thus says the Lord God
to His anointed, to Cyrus,
00:18:36.60\00:18:41.80
whose right hand I have held
to subdue nations before him,
00:18:41.83\00:18:46.41
and loose the armor of
kings, to open before him,"
00:18:46.44\00:18:50.16
notice "the double doors,
00:18:50.19\00:18:54.42
so that the gates
will not be shut."
00:18:54.45\00:18:57.66
Our prophecy revealed
that Cyrus would do this,
00:18:57.69\00:19:01.86
150 years before
he was even born.
00:19:01.89\00:19:04.64
But how would he do it?
00:19:04.67\00:19:06.03
Well, Cyrus could not
break down those great big walls
00:19:06.06\00:19:08.68
so he did an amazing thing.
00:19:08.71\00:19:09.84
It sounds very, very simple now
00:19:09.87\00:19:11.92
but nobody had
ever heard of it before.
00:19:11.95\00:19:14.52
But the Euphrates
River was the key.
00:19:14.55\00:19:18.10
History tells us that
Cyrus sent his engineers
00:19:18.13\00:19:21.36
to work upstream on
the Euphrates River,
00:19:21.39\00:19:24.67
and they built some dams
and dikes to divert the river
00:19:24.70\00:19:28.65
that ran through
the center of the city.
00:19:28.68\00:19:30.39
And on a given
night, on a given signal,
00:19:30.42\00:19:32.75
one group of those soldiers
and engineers turned aside
00:19:32.78\00:19:35.53
that whole Euphrates River,
it dropped down to a trickle,
00:19:35.56\00:19:39.81
and so the rest of the
army that were hiding in ambush,
00:19:39.84\00:19:42.31
they tramped down
into the riverbed,
00:19:42.34\00:19:43.91
marched underneath
the great walls of Babylon
00:19:43.94\00:19:46.24
right into the city.
00:19:46.27\00:19:48.23
They had left those two double
doors open inside the city
00:19:48.26\00:19:50.99
and that night
by surprise-attack
00:19:51.02\00:19:52.69
the Persian army
stormed Belshazzar's palace.
00:19:52.72\00:19:55.32
They captured the
city, they killed the king
00:19:55.35\00:19:57.85
and Babylon the
Golden crashed in one night.
00:19:57.88\00:20:04.49
So now
Medo-Persia ruled the world.
00:20:04.52\00:20:07.78
For two centuries
from 539 to 331 B.C.
00:20:07.81\00:20:11.52
the chest and arms of silver
of that great image ruled.
00:20:11.55\00:20:17.41
A kingdom that certainly
00:20:17.44\00:20:18.67
was a whole lot
inferior to Babylon,
00:20:18.70\00:20:21.30
but it happened and
history confirms it.
00:20:21.33\00:20:24.19
But, you see,
the prophecy goes on
00:20:24.22\00:20:26.21
and history goes on.
00:20:26.24\00:20:28.36
Daniel predicted the kingdom
of silver would also fall.
00:20:28.39\00:20:33.27
Notice verse 39, "...Next,
O king, a third kingdom,
00:20:33.30\00:20:38.26
one of bronze, will
rule over the whole earth."
00:20:38.29\00:20:42.10
Well, did that come to pass?
00:20:42.13\00:20:44.11
I mean, could Daniel
have possibly identified
00:20:44.14\00:20:46.31
this third world power, would
have hardly even existed yet?
00:20:46.34\00:20:50.98
In Daniel 8:21 he puts
it down in black and white.
00:20:51.01\00:20:55.37
The belly and thighs of bronze
00:20:55.40\00:20:57.50
made on this
metal image is Greece.
00:20:57.53\00:21:01.16
And he even names it
300 years before it arose.
00:21:01.19\00:21:05.63
Daniel spells that out, 1, 2, 3.
00:21:05.66\00:21:09.34
First Babylon, then Medo-Persia,
00:21:09.37\00:21:11.81
then Grecia, and
history backs up the Bible.
00:21:11.84\00:21:16.22
The fantastic story
of Alexander the Great,
00:21:16.25\00:21:20.11
that dazzling young general
who marched his armies so fast,
00:21:20.14\00:21:23.01
that the Bible says
like his feet seemed like
00:21:23.04\00:21:25.10
they touched not the ground.
00:21:25.13\00:21:28.75
Jeannie and I were in
Greece with Phil Draper
00:21:28.78\00:21:30.59
and some of our
Voice of Prophecy team
00:21:30.62\00:21:31.73
just a little over year
ago before everything blew up.
00:21:31.76\00:21:35.64
Two summers ago,
we were following
00:21:35.67\00:21:36.83
the journeys of
the the Apostle Paul
00:21:36.86\00:21:38.78
and our guide in near
Athens showed us exact place
00:21:38.81\00:21:43.17
where Alexander and the Greeks
00:21:43.20\00:21:44.82
collided head-on
with Darius III of Persia
00:21:44.85\00:21:48.74
in the Battle of
Arbela in 331 B.C.
00:21:48.77\00:21:52.25
And they showed us that
little area in the ocean
00:21:52.28\00:21:55.21
there in the Mediterranean.
00:21:55.24\00:21:57.65
He said, there were
so many Persian ships
00:21:57.68\00:21:59.65
packed into that little bay,
00:21:59.68\00:22:01.15
they couldn't maneuver,
they couldn't turn around.
00:22:01.18\00:22:02.94
Alexander just had some
little tiny robots practically.
00:22:02.97\00:22:06.94
His rag-tag band of
just 47,000 soldiers
00:22:06.97\00:22:11.14
were pitted against
one million Persians.
00:22:11.17\00:22:15.26
Impossible?
00:22:15.29\00:22:16.32
Jimmy the Greek, the
oddsmaker in Vegas would say,
00:22:16.35\00:22:19.44
"That's 20:1 odds, no way."
00:22:19.47\00:22:22.02
But Daniel Chapter 6 says, "No.
00:22:22.05\00:22:24.78
The Greeks will tumble
the Medo-Persian Empire."
00:22:24.81\00:22:28.90
And it happened. It happened.
00:22:28.93\00:22:31.32
At the young age of 25,
Alexander became the ruler
00:22:31.35\00:22:34.57
over the most expensive
and extensive world empire
00:22:34.60\00:22:37.92
that he had ever known, Greece,
00:22:37.95\00:22:40.73
the great bronze
third world empire.
00:22:40.76\00:22:45.92
You know, if you
read world history
00:22:45.95\00:22:47.10
and I took history
as a minor in college.
00:22:47.13\00:22:48.61
It's very
interesting to read Arian
00:22:48.64\00:22:51.10
who writes this and I'm quoting.
00:22:51.13\00:22:52.24
He writes about Alexander.
00:22:52.27\00:22:54.49
"I am persuaded
that there was no nation,
00:22:54.52\00:22:57.66
city, nor people where
his name did not reach.
00:22:57.69\00:23:01.42
There seems to me to have
been some divine hand presiding
00:23:01.45\00:23:05.10
both over his
birth and actions."
00:23:05.13\00:23:09.22
Greece, the kingdom of brass.
00:23:09.25\00:23:12.86
I don't believe
it's just a coincidence
00:23:12.89\00:23:14.60
that the Greek soldiers
wore brass armor, brass spears,
00:23:14.63\00:23:18.98
brass helmets, brass
shields, brass battle-axes,
00:23:19.01\00:23:23.20
because that was the third metal
00:23:23.23\00:23:25.59
of that empire in
Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
00:23:25.62\00:23:28.66
And Alexander the
Great. What a general.
00:23:28.69\00:23:31.71
I mean, in five short years,
00:23:31.74\00:23:35.94
he marched his
armies all over the globe.
00:23:35.97\00:23:38.30
He crossed the
Himalayas to India.
00:23:38.33\00:23:41.17
And finally at
just 32 years of age
00:23:41.20\00:23:44.62
Alexander sat down and he wept
00:23:44.65\00:23:46.58
because there were no
more worlds to conquer.
00:23:46.61\00:23:49.91
A bloodthirsty and
licentious soldier he was.
00:23:49.94\00:23:52.22
Alexander often
killed his own friends
00:23:52.25\00:23:55.27
for sport in his
drunken frenzies.
00:23:55.30\00:23:58.77
Or he'd burn down
beautiful palaces,
00:23:58.80\00:24:01.66
simply to watch them burn.
00:24:01.69\00:24:02.93
He was a pyromaniac.
00:24:02.96\00:24:05.08
Unfortunately,
Alexander the Great
00:24:05.11\00:24:07.34
dropped dead one
day of acute alcoholism.
00:24:07.37\00:24:11.48
And after his death,
00:24:11.51\00:24:12.55
the Greek Empire
went downhill fast,
00:24:12.58\00:24:15.47
Until, "On June 22, 168
B.C., at the Battle of Pynda,
00:24:15.50\00:24:22.11
perished the great
empire of Alexander the Great,
00:24:22.14\00:24:25.21
just a 144 years
after his death."
00:24:25.24\00:24:29.52
But God predicted four world
empires, one after the other.
00:24:29.55\00:24:36.09
So after those thighs of brass
00:24:36.12\00:24:38.98
were down now in
the legs of iron.
00:24:39.01\00:24:42.65
Notice Daniel 2:40,
00:24:42.68\00:24:45.07
"And the fourth kingdom
shall be as strong as iron..."
00:24:45.10\00:24:50.77
Well, turning to
history again, sure enough.
00:24:50.80\00:24:53.22
Rome crushed Grecia.
00:24:53.25\00:24:57.66
Rome was the most fierce
and ruthless kingdom yet.
00:24:57.69\00:25:00.51
This great iron
monarchy with her Caesars,
00:25:00.54\00:25:03.27
who've called themselves
gods and demanded worship.
00:25:03.30\00:25:06.89
Everyone knows that
Rome was the cruel power
00:25:06.92\00:25:09.63
that put Jesus to death.
00:25:09.66\00:25:11.36
Roman soldiers nailed
Him to the cross on Calvary.
00:25:11.39\00:25:16.30
Iron Rome, military Rome,
00:25:16.33\00:25:18.61
characterized by
rumbling iron chariots,
00:25:18.64\00:25:22.27
short iron swords and
fantastic highway systems.
00:25:22.30\00:25:26.48
But Rome was a horribly
fierce authoritative power.
00:25:26.51\00:25:32.04
Daniel speaks again,
but now listen, king,
00:25:32.07\00:25:35.57
king here we're
down on the legs,
00:25:35.60\00:25:37.58
but now a major change
in world history is coming.
00:25:37.61\00:25:42.41
Your majesty, there
is not gonna be anymore
00:25:42.44\00:25:44.97
world empires that follow Rome."
00:25:45.00\00:25:48.57
What? No more world empires?
00:25:48.60\00:25:52.99
There's always world--
No fifth empire, Daniel?
00:25:53.02\00:25:55.66
No, says Daniel.
00:25:55.69\00:25:56.72
The Prophecy says, the fourth
world empire is the very last.
00:25:56.75\00:26:02.38
Babylon the Golden,
Medo-Persia, Grecia,
00:26:02.41\00:26:05.19
then the iron monarchy of Rome
00:26:05.22\00:26:06.52
but then God says a
big change is coming.
00:26:06.55\00:26:10.78
Well, Nebuchadnezzar
leans forward on his throne
00:26:10.81\00:26:14.00
listening to
Daniel as he points now
00:26:14.03\00:26:15.78
down to the feet
of that great image.
00:26:15.81\00:26:19.63
King, do you remember
that your saw in your dream,
00:26:19.66\00:26:22.59
a great break up?
00:26:22.62\00:26:24.63
Do you remember the feet
00:26:24.66\00:26:26.33
were part of
iron and part of clay?
00:26:26.36\00:26:30.68
Yes, but what does that
mean? Verse 41, verse 42, 43.
00:26:30.71\00:26:35.98
King, "Just as
you saw that the feet
00:26:36.01\00:26:38.86
were part of baked
clay and partly of iron,
00:26:38.89\00:26:43.72
so this will be
now a divided kingdom,
00:26:43.75\00:26:47.50
so the people will be a
mixture and not remain united,
00:26:47.53\00:26:51.03
any more than
iron mixes with clay."
00:26:51.06\00:26:54.37
Well, now, Danny boy,
do you mean to tell me
00:26:54.40\00:26:56.06
that there will not be
one world empire any more?
00:26:56.09\00:26:59.29
Exactly, king. No
fifth world empire.
00:26:59.32\00:27:03.38
Rome would rule the
world for 600 years,
00:27:03.41\00:27:06.01
but then it would disintegrate.
00:27:06.04\00:27:08.53
Did it happen? Did it?
00:27:08.56\00:27:11.46
You just go down the street
to any Barnes & Noble store
00:27:11.49\00:27:14.41
and you read Edward Gibbons'
00:27:14.44\00:27:16.39
The Rise and Fall
of the Roman Empire.
00:27:16.42\00:27:18.54
Probably many of
you have it at home,
00:27:18.57\00:27:19.96
probably haven't read
it, it's pretty heavy stuff.
00:27:19.99\00:27:22.69
The Gibbons
tells us that Rome did
00:27:22.72\00:27:24.75
divide and break up
just like those ten toes.
00:27:24.78\00:27:28.38
Daniel 7:24 said,
ten kings would arise.
00:27:28.41\00:27:33.03
In fact Gibbons
tells how Rome imploded
00:27:33.06\00:27:36.90
and collapsed
through vice, through luxury,
00:27:36.93\00:27:41.26
through political
corruption, scandal
00:27:41.29\00:27:44.29
and particularly moral decay.
00:27:44.32\00:27:47.74
We talk about
those Roman orgies,
00:27:47.77\00:27:50.80
this is what
we're talking about.
00:27:50.83\00:27:53.04
It caved in,
becoming an easy prey
00:27:53.07\00:27:55.34
for those barbarian tribes,
00:27:55.37\00:27:56.92
who began to invade
the empire around 476.
00:27:56.95\00:28:00.85
Over those Alpine
passes to the North,
00:28:00.88\00:28:03.11
they swarmed in from
Northern Europe in full revolt.
00:28:03.14\00:28:06.87
They deposed Emperor Augustus,
00:28:06.90\00:28:08.89
and Rome just
fractured into segments,
00:28:08.92\00:28:11.85
little nations,
little countries,
00:28:11.88\00:28:14.07
corresponding exactly to
the ten toes in the image
00:28:14.10\00:28:18.47
that came apart, the iron clay
00:28:18.50\00:28:21.22
and they can't mix.
00:28:21.25\00:28:23.25
Nothing you can do
welds iron to clay.
00:28:23.28\00:28:26.63
So Daniel 2:42, 43
says, "So the kingdom now
00:28:26.66\00:28:30.75
will be partly
strong and partly fragile.
00:28:30.78\00:28:34.89
As you saw iron
mixed with ceramic clay,
00:28:34.92\00:28:37.83
they will mingle
with the seed of men,
00:28:37.86\00:28:39.89
but they will not
adhere to one another,
00:28:39.92\00:28:41.94
just as iron does
not mix with clay."
00:28:41.97\00:28:45.42
Now, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I'm here tonight to tell you
00:28:45.45\00:28:49.31
that in history we
here are right down
00:28:49.34\00:28:53.60
there in the toes of
that great big image.
00:28:53.63\00:28:58.24
Those barbarian
divisions around 476 A.D.
00:28:58.27\00:29:02.60
basically became the nations
00:29:02.63\00:29:04.22
of what we now call
today modern Europe.
00:29:04.25\00:29:06.92
In fact if you went to
public high school or college,
00:29:06.95\00:29:09.80
you know that historians
list these ten barbaric tribes.
00:29:09.83\00:29:14.22
We'll put them on
the chart here right now.
00:29:14.25\00:29:15.64
The Alamanni became the Germans.
00:29:15.67\00:29:17.33
The Burgundians
became the Swiss.
00:29:17.36\00:29:19.11
The Franks became the French.
The Lombards are the Italians.
00:29:19.14\00:29:22.10
The Saxons are the English.
The Suevi are the Portuguese.
00:29:22.13\00:29:25.11
The Visigoths are
our Spanish friends.
00:29:25.14\00:29:27.83
And the Heruli
and the Ostrogoths
00:29:27.86\00:29:29.54
and the Vandals are now extinct.
00:29:29.57\00:29:32.89
But here is the point.
00:29:32.92\00:29:34.94
God predicted
these nations of Europe
00:29:34.97\00:29:39.34
and that they would never unite.
00:29:39.37\00:29:42.32
They'll try.
00:29:42.35\00:29:43.38
Daniel 2:43 says,
00:29:43.41\00:29:44.88
"They will mingle themselves
with the seed of men."
00:29:44.91\00:29:47.55
In other words, they
would intermarry royalty
00:29:47.58\00:29:50.52
but that won't work.
00:29:50.55\00:29:51.88
And, you know, you look
at the history of Europe,
00:29:51.91\00:29:53.86
fascinating to me.
00:29:53.89\00:29:55.14
Coney went to school
over there in England
00:29:55.17\00:29:56.65
and he can probably verify this,
00:29:56.68\00:29:58.56
they tried everything you
can to get Europe together.
00:29:58.59\00:30:01.07
They tried intermarriage,
they tried intrigue,
00:30:01.10\00:30:02.93
they tried alimony,
they tried palimony.
00:30:02.96\00:30:05.82
But God said no.
00:30:05.85\00:30:07.52
They'll try, but you
read the text with me.
00:30:07.55\00:30:10.15
What does your Bible say?
00:30:10.18\00:30:11.78
"They shall not
cleave one to another."
00:30:11.81\00:30:16.94
Amen. They would fail.
00:30:16.97\00:30:20.33
Seven words in
verse 43 spell the doom
00:30:20.36\00:30:23.62
of all future
attempts for world dominion.
00:30:23.65\00:30:26.75
I mean they tried
forging one world empire
00:30:26.78\00:30:29.58
down to the Middle Ages
clear into the 20th Century.
00:30:29.61\00:30:32.42
In fact now in the 21st century,
00:30:32.45\00:30:34.02
they've even come up
00:30:34.05\00:30:35.10
with some new ways of
trying to bring them together,
00:30:35.13\00:30:37.01
they have one of them called
the European Common Market.
00:30:37.04\00:30:40.25
In fact they have a
new common currency,
00:30:40.28\00:30:42.16
they kind of like it.
00:30:42.19\00:30:43.22
The Euro seems to be
00:30:43.25\00:30:44.31
about the best
attempt they've ever had.
00:30:44.34\00:30:47.28
But is it all working? No.
00:30:47.31\00:30:49.28
They are still
divided, perhaps more than ever.
00:30:49.31\00:30:52.14
Intermarriage, divorce,
remarriage, adultery, incest,
00:30:52.17\00:30:56.20
intrigue, you name
it, went on in Europe.
00:30:56.23\00:30:57.91
And suddenly, as you
look at world history,
00:30:57.94\00:30:59.89
all of the political rulers
00:30:59.92\00:31:01.73
began to be
related to each other.
00:31:01.76\00:31:04.59
So what happens?
00:31:04.62\00:31:06.35
World War I was just one
great big family quarrel.
00:31:06.38\00:31:10.81
Most of the rulers of Europe
00:31:10.84\00:31:12.39
were related in some way
to Christian IX of Denmark.
00:31:12.42\00:31:16.80
Same with World War II over
there in Europe, same story,
00:31:16.83\00:31:20.09
another family argument, as
far as Europe was concerned.
00:31:20.12\00:31:24.47
The Czar of Russia,
the King of England,
00:31:24.50\00:31:26.89
Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany,
they were all first cousins
00:31:26.92\00:31:30.16
related to Queen
Victoria, their grandmother.
00:31:30.19\00:31:33.88
By the way, if you
ever do get the courage
00:31:33.91\00:31:35.46
to fly on an airline again
00:31:35.49\00:31:36.74
and go over to Europe
and you go to Denmark,
00:31:36.77\00:31:40.36
be sure to go to the palace
00:31:40.39\00:31:42.72
and you'll see a famous
picture there with a family tree
00:31:42.75\00:31:45.68
of the royal families of Europe.
00:31:45.71\00:31:48.21
And it will show you
that they were all related.
00:31:48.24\00:31:51.71
You see, they hoped by some how
00:31:51.74\00:31:52.84
maybe romancing each
other, marrying each other,
00:31:52.87\00:31:55.73
that it would bring them
together and prevent wars.
00:31:55.76\00:32:00.37
Well, it didn't.
It's never worked.
00:32:00.40\00:32:03.87
Because God predicted
they could not stick together,
00:32:03.90\00:32:09.77
just as iron and clay
will not stick together.
00:32:09.80\00:32:12.40
Everyone tried to glue the
nations of Europe together.
00:32:12.43\00:32:15.76
Charlemagne in 800
tried, he was defeated.
00:32:15.79\00:32:20.47
Charles V of Spain,
he tried it, defeated.
00:32:20.50\00:32:25.04
Louis XIV of France,
defeated. Napoleon, defeated.
00:32:25.07\00:32:30.70
In fact
Napoleon finally admitted
00:32:30.73\00:32:32.49
God has just too much for me.
00:32:32.52\00:32:35.15
Kaiser Wilhelm of
Germany, defeated.
00:32:35.18\00:32:38.10
Hitler in 1939,
defeated. Mussolini, defeated.
00:32:38.13\00:32:43.05
Because a single
verse of prophecy
00:32:43.08\00:32:45.29
spelled the doom of
all of these efforts
00:32:45.32\00:32:47.46
to unite Europe under one flag.
00:32:47.49\00:32:49.03
God said, "They shall
not cleave one to another."
00:32:49.06\00:32:56.66
I'm a Canadian by birth
00:32:56.69\00:32:57.93
and all of my Canadian
friends are listening tonight.
00:32:57.96\00:33:00.79
We have a French translator
00:33:00.82\00:33:02.25
and he's sending
it up to Montreal
00:33:02.28\00:33:03.47
and all the French Canada.
00:33:03.50\00:33:04.75
You know, I was
fascinated this last summer
00:33:04.78\00:33:08.00
when they had that big G-8
00:33:08.03\00:33:09.59
summit conference up
there in Kananaskis, Alberta,
00:33:09.62\00:33:13.16
that's right inside
Banff National Park.
00:33:13.19\00:33:15.63
Do you remember who
was there on June 6, 2002?
00:33:15.66\00:33:18.79
President Bush was there.
00:33:18.82\00:33:19.90
Tony Blair was
there from Canada.
00:33:19.93\00:33:21.82
England, France,
they were all there
00:33:21.85\00:33:23.54
trying to bring
world peace in Europe,
00:33:23.57\00:33:27.05
peace in the Middle East.
00:33:27.08\00:33:31.43
I'm a good citizen.
00:33:31.46\00:33:33.33
I don't wish to be
disrespectful or unpatriotic.
00:33:33.36\00:33:36.78
But, Ladies and
Gentlemen, these seven words
00:33:36.81\00:33:40.25
spell the ultimate
doom of the United Nations,
00:33:40.28\00:33:45.48
the League of Nations,
00:33:45.51\00:33:46.95
the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization,
00:33:46.98\00:33:49.40
the Organization
of American States,
00:33:49.43\00:33:51.28
the Palestinian-Israeli
peace accord.
00:33:51.31\00:33:53.51
The Bible says, "They shall
not cleave one to another."
00:33:53.54\00:33:59.84
Whether it's in
Moscow or Beijing
00:33:59.87\00:34:01.76
or the White House,
they may get together,
00:34:01.79\00:34:04.45
but the Bible says,
they can't stick together.
00:34:04.48\00:34:06.94
It will never be.
Those words, same words.
00:34:06.97\00:34:12.48
They hang over
every peace table,
00:34:12.51\00:34:14.86
every council of nations,
00:34:14.89\00:34:16.49
every effort toward
uniting the world in peace.
00:34:16.52\00:34:19.42
God said, you say it
with me, say it right out loud
00:34:19.45\00:34:21.96
so they can hear you
in Paradise, California,
00:34:21.99\00:34:23.85
where my folks are
listening tonight, everyone.
00:34:23.88\00:34:25.98
"They shall not
cleave one to another."
00:34:26.01\00:34:31.56
So, Ladies and Gentlemen,
the question we ask you
00:34:31.59\00:34:33.34
in this Voice of
Prophecy Speaks series
00:34:33.37\00:34:34.89
is "What's Next?"
00:34:34.92\00:34:39.06
That's the question tonight.
00:34:39.09\00:34:41.40
And The Voice of
Prophecy speaks again
00:34:41.43\00:34:44.19
because suddenly the prophet
stops short, and he says,
00:34:44.22\00:34:47.22
Oh, look there,
king, you see it coming?
00:34:47.25\00:34:49.57
The king looks up as
though he sees something.
00:34:49.60\00:34:51.48
Do you see it?
00:34:51.51\00:34:52.54
That's stone cut
out without hands,
00:34:52.57\00:34:54.25
and it comes down and
strikes the image upon the feet,
00:34:54.28\00:34:56.89
and smashes all
those nations to bits.
00:34:56.92\00:34:59.52
And the image explodes
00:34:59.55\00:35:00.82
and shatters in
a billion pieces.
00:35:00.85\00:35:02.60
And that stone just grinds
it to powder, and blows it away.
00:35:02.63\00:35:05.85
Well, the king watches as
that stone sure enough grows
00:35:05.88\00:35:09.55
until it
becomes a great mountain
00:35:09.58\00:35:10.98
and fills the whole earth.
00:35:11.01\00:35:12.75
Daniel, what does that mean?
00:35:12.78\00:35:14.73
What is that stone?
What does it represent?
00:35:14.76\00:35:17.34
He hears the
pronouncement in verse 44, 45.
00:35:17.37\00:35:21.02
"In the time of those kings,"
00:35:21.05\00:35:24.27
down in the feet of iron
mixed with clay of Modern Europe
00:35:24.30\00:35:28.34
and the United
States of America.
00:35:28.37\00:35:29.92
In those days,
"The God of heaven
00:35:29.95\00:35:32.99
will set up a kingdom
that will never be destroyed,
00:35:33.02\00:35:36.09
nor will it be
left to other people.
00:35:36.12\00:35:38.21
It will crush all those kingdoms
00:35:38.24\00:35:40.62
and bring them to the end,
00:35:40.65\00:35:42.40
but it itself
will endure forever.
00:35:42.43\00:35:46.31
King, this is the meaning
of the vision of the rock
00:35:46.34\00:35:49.22
cut out of a
mountain, but not by human hands
00:35:49.25\00:35:51.99
a rock that broke
the iron, the bronze,
00:35:52.02\00:35:54.15
the clay, the silver
and the gold to pieces.
00:35:54.18\00:35:56.77
The great God has shown the king
00:35:56.80\00:36:00.96
what will take
place in the future.
00:36:00.99\00:36:03.42
King, the dream is true
00:36:03.45\00:36:06.13
and the
interpretation is trustworthy."
00:36:06.16\00:36:09.56
My friends, tonight,
Daniel 2 is a picture
00:36:09.59\00:36:14.26
of tomorrow
morning's newspaper headlines
00:36:14.29\00:36:17.80
that the great next event
on the stage of human history
00:36:17.83\00:36:21.32
is the Kingdom of the Stone.
00:36:21.35\00:36:23.89
The second-coming of
Jesus, that's what's next.
00:36:23.92\00:36:28.47
That stone cut out without hands
00:36:28.50\00:36:30.54
means that God's
kingdom won't be founded
00:36:30.57\00:36:32.95
by the hands of men, but
by the mighty hand of God.
00:36:32.98\00:36:37.31
And it is a kingdom that
will fill the whole earth
00:36:37.34\00:36:41.39
when that Hallelujah chorus
that we sing every Christmas
00:36:41.42\00:36:44.00
will fulfill the
prophecy, of Revelation 11:15
00:36:44.03\00:36:47.35
"That the kingdoms of this world
00:36:47.38\00:36:49.46
have become the
kingdoms of our Lord,
00:36:49.49\00:36:51.64
and He shall
reign forever and ever."
00:36:51.67\00:36:55.01
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
00:36:55.04\00:36:57.94
Daniel 2 is a
panoramic picture of history
00:36:57.97\00:37:01.41
in advance for our benefit.
00:37:01.44\00:37:04.55
And you and I
tonight have been permitted
00:37:04.58\00:37:07.25
to peek behind
the curtain of time
00:37:07.28\00:37:10.49
and see the continued struggle
00:37:10.52\00:37:12.08
that's gone on
for thousands of years
00:37:12.11\00:37:13.89
from Daniel's time clear down
00:37:13.92\00:37:15.93
to the establishment
of Christ's kingdom
00:37:15.96\00:37:18.39
and we see whose side will win.
00:37:18.42\00:37:22.57
Soon. What's next?
00:37:22.60\00:37:25.75
Christ's kingdom,
the very next event.
00:37:25.78\00:37:30.13
Not the Taliban,
00:37:30.16\00:37:31.95
not Osama bin
Laden, not atheism.
00:37:31.98\00:37:35.94
No, listen, we tonight,
pardon my expression here.
00:37:35.97\00:37:41.37
We're living down in the very
tippy toenails of that image.
00:37:41.40\00:37:46.86
It's almost over.
00:37:46.89\00:37:49.45
Very soon now the
great Majesty of Heaven
00:37:49.48\00:37:54.33
will arise and He'll step
across the threshold of time
00:37:54.36\00:37:57.08
and He'll see our seething,
war-torn planet and He'll say,
00:37:57.11\00:38:00.53
Ladies and
Gentlemen, it's closing time.
00:38:00.56\00:38:03.84
Things have gone on far enough.
00:38:03.87\00:38:05.96
The wisdom and brains-trust
of humankind is bankrupt.
00:38:05.99\00:38:11.06
It's over.
00:38:11.09\00:38:13.61
But permit me to ask
you a question tonight.
00:38:13.64\00:38:16.67
Whether you are watching
in the Australian Pacific Rim
00:38:16.70\00:38:20.31
or you are in Papua New Guinea
which we have watching tonight
00:38:20.34\00:38:24.20
or you're in South
America or in Canada
00:38:24.23\00:38:27.11
or the Islands of the Sea,
00:38:27.14\00:38:28.17
wherever you are
listening tonight,
00:38:28.20\00:38:29.91
I have a question for you.
00:38:29.94\00:38:32.18
Friend, listen carefully.
00:38:32.21\00:38:34.07
If all of these predictions
00:38:34.10\00:38:36.04
in just one chapter of the Bible
00:38:36.07\00:38:38.42
are absolutely correct
in every detail tracing
00:38:38.45\00:38:42.04
thousands of years
of history in advance,
00:38:42.07\00:38:44.88
can't we trust the
rest of the Bible, too?
00:38:44.91\00:38:50.31
Can we rely on
other truths in God's word
00:38:50.34\00:38:52.96
that are given
to guide and help us
00:38:52.99\00:38:55.08
prepare for that coming kingdom?
00:38:55.11\00:38:57.41
Can't we tonight
be absolutely certain
00:38:57.44\00:38:59.67
Jesus really is
coming a second time soon
00:38:59.70\00:39:04.12
just as this
prophecy in Daniel 2 says.
00:39:04.15\00:39:07.97
I believe with all of my heart
00:39:08.00\00:39:10.62
that tonight we are
living on borrowed time.
00:39:10.65\00:39:16.49
We're right down
there in the toes,
00:39:16.52\00:39:19.52
on the very verge of
God's eternal kingdom.
00:39:19.55\00:39:22.65
We've come to the end.
00:39:22.68\00:39:24.80
The next move
isn't man's, it's God's.
00:39:24.83\00:39:30.81
Let me say it this way.
00:39:30.84\00:39:32.48
Maybe there is
not gonna be any more
00:39:32.51\00:39:34.14
voyager spacecraft
invasions into space.
00:39:34.17\00:39:38.20
Folks, we're about to witness
00:39:38.23\00:39:39.82
that great big
invasion from space.
00:39:39.85\00:39:44.24
But think, in loving mercy,
00:39:44.27\00:39:48.31
God reveals step by step exactly
00:39:48.34\00:39:50.61
what's coming so that
we can face the future
00:39:50.64\00:39:53.24
not with fear,
but with confidence.
00:39:53.27\00:39:56.55
And our business
tonight, friend, is to determine
00:39:56.58\00:39:59.90
that we're gonna be a citizen
00:39:59.93\00:40:01.28
of the eternal
kingdom that's coming.
00:40:01.31\00:40:04.18
And, folks, we can. We must.
00:40:04.21\00:40:07.42
Through the wonderful
citizenship freely offered
00:40:07.45\00:40:10.25
through Jesus'
blood-stained cross on Calvary.
00:40:10.28\00:40:15.05
You know, God is
making up His kingdom.
00:40:15.08\00:40:17.86
He's deciding right now
who's gonna be in that kingdom.
00:40:17.89\00:40:22.45
Friend, you did not come
to this meeting by accident.
00:40:22.48\00:40:28.76
I believe you're here
by divine appointment.
00:40:28.79\00:40:32.79
He is inviting
you today to come.
00:40:32.82\00:40:35.94
Get out your Bibles,
bring them with you, study.
00:40:35.97\00:40:39.28
Open your mind to
God's plan for your future.
00:40:39.31\00:40:44.21
What's next?
00:40:44.24\00:40:46.81
What's next, friend, is
the choice is up to you.
00:40:46.84\00:40:53.54
Will you ponder with me
these words from Joey's song?
00:40:53.57\00:40:57.78
Are you ready for Jesus to come?
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The theme of the Bible is Jesus
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And how He died to save men
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The plan of salvation assures us
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He's coming back again
00:41:22.32\00:41:29.35
Are you ready for Jesus to come?
00:41:29.38\00:41:37.35
Are you faithful
in all that you do?
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Have you fought a good fight?
00:41:44.39\00:41:47.53
Have you stood for the right?
00:41:47.56\00:41:52.88
Have others seen Jesus in you?
00:41:52.91\00:42:00.85
Are you ready to
stand in your place?
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Are you ready to
look in His face?
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Can you look up and say
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This is my Lord
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Are you ready
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For Jesus to come?
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I invite you to join
me in prayer just now.
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Eternal God,
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thank You for the dramatic
picture of truth in Daniel 2,
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for the certainty of these
words in this amazing dream.
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And, Lord, we really
do want to be citizens
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of that eternal
Kingdom of the Stone.
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We do.
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All our heads are bowed,
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and we're in attitude of prayer.
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The head of each row
there are row captains
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and I'd like that they hand down
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right now to each
row a little container.
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Just pass that down
quickly, row captains,
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just now, send it down.
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Take one of those
little response cards
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and a pencil if you need it.
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Just take it out and pass it
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to the person
next to you, every one.
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Just do that right
now. Pass it right down.
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Thank you, row captains.
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And our heads
are bowed in prayer,
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I want to just pray, Lord,
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right now I want
to invite any person
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in this auditorium or wherever
00:43:41.50\00:43:42.85
they're listening
across this great globe.
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I want them to
consider being in that Kingdom
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and Lord to seriously
explore how we can be citizens.
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Jesus is
inviting us, personally.
00:43:54.23\00:43:58.27
Jesus is present
whenever His Word is preached.
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And His Holy word is
lifted up, so He's here,
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King of Kings,
Lord of Lords right now.
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O Lord if a world president
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walked into this room right now,
00:44:08.29\00:44:09.80
we'd all stand in
honor and respect,
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but Jesus is here.
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So we want to honor You,
respect You and choose You.
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We want to be a
citizen in Your Kingdom.
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So, friend, wherever
you're listening tonight,
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I hope you have that
card now in your hand,
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and with your head
bowed I'd like to invite you.
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If you'd like to
begin putting your faith
00:44:32.62\00:44:34.56
more firmly into
God's incredible word,
00:44:34.59\00:44:37.89
the Bible, Books of Prophecy.
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Now you don't know
all of the answers,
00:44:39.84\00:44:42.04
but you're just
making a choice tonight
00:44:42.07\00:44:44.21
to choose to rest
your future in God's hands.
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And you'd like to say,
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God, my eternal
security is in You.
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I'm gonna do my best,
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I'm gonna come
to these meetings,
00:44:56.30\00:44:57.52
I'm gonna sign up there
at the Discover Bible table,
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take those lessons
tonight, review them,
00:45:00.07\00:45:02.37
do whatever it takes.
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I'd like to invite
you, Ladies and Gentlemen,
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take that card right
now, your response card.
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I want to go
through it with you.
00:45:07.91\00:45:09.40
If you'd mind putting
your name and address,
00:45:09.43\00:45:12.05
give us some information
there, but notice the first one.
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I want to prepare for
Jesus' soon coming kingdom.
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I hope everyone will
check that first one.
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And then number two,
00:45:23.27\00:45:24.30
perhaps you'd like
to check this as well.
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I would like to
surrender my life to Jesus
00:45:25.93\00:45:28.36
and accept Him
as my Savior Lord.
00:45:28.39\00:45:32.72
Check that if you'd like
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to have that as
your commitment tonight.
00:45:33.81\00:45:35.27
And then number three,
there maybe someone here
00:45:35.30\00:45:37.64
in these various
locations who would like to say,
00:45:37.67\00:45:39.90
you know, I came in here,
00:45:39.93\00:45:41.01
but I have
wandered away from my Lord,
00:45:41.04\00:45:44.07
but I'd like to desire
to come back into His truth.
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Would you just
check that third response?
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And then number four,
00:45:50.36\00:45:51.39
there may be
individuals here tonight,
00:45:51.42\00:45:52.53
that you're just guests
or you've got something heavy
00:45:52.56\00:45:55.75
on your heart, a burden
and you have a prayer request,
00:45:55.78\00:45:57.86
just write it down there.
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Our staff tomorrow morning
00:45:59.10\00:46:00.33
will be gathering to
pray for your request by name.
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Just make those checks right now
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and when you finish that,
would you take that container
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and pass it back down the aisle.
00:46:09.16\00:46:11.65
Return your pencils
and your commitment card
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as I continue to pray.
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Lord, I don't know these people,
00:46:16.28\00:46:20.18
but You know them, everyone.
00:46:20.21\00:46:23.00
I want to thank You
for each commitment.
00:46:23.03\00:46:26.38
Bless each one with inner
peace tonight, what's next?
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We don't know.
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But we've made the big decision,
00:46:30.88\00:46:32.39
we want to be part of
Your soon coming kingdom,
00:46:32.42\00:46:35.28
help us get ready
in Jesus' name, amen.
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Joey, sing the rest
of that song for us.
00:46:40.62\00:46:44.29
Don't cling to the
world and its treasure
00:46:44.32\00:46:50.12
This earth will soon pass away
00:46:50.15\00:46:56.63
O give him your
love without measure
00:46:56.66\00:47:03.56
He's calling you today
00:47:03.59\00:47:10.73
Are you ready for Jesus to come?
00:47:10.76\00:47:18.64
Are you faithful
in all that you do?
00:47:18.67\00:47:25.74
Have you fought a good fight?
00:47:25.77\00:47:28.98
Have you stood for the right?
00:47:29.01\00:47:34.10
Have others seen Jesus in you?
00:47:34.13\00:47:41.56
Are you ready to
stand in your place?
00:47:41.59\00:47:49.16
Are you ready to
look in His face?
00:47:49.19\00:47:56.45
Can you look up and say
00:47:56.48\00:48:01.22
This is my Lord
00:48:01.25\00:48:07.25
Are you ready
00:48:07.28\00:48:10.51
For Jesus to come?
00:48:10.54\00:48:18.26
Amen. And all
the people said amen.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, if you
didn't get one of those cards,
00:48:25.43\00:48:28.62
see one of our row captains,
00:48:28.65\00:48:29.84
but be sure you place
those back in the containers,
00:48:29.87\00:48:32.95
place them down to
the other end of the row.
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Tomorrow night,
"Why So Much Suffering?"
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Invite your
friends. We'll see you here.
00:48:40.18\00:48:42.48
Same locations
all across America
00:48:42.51\00:48:44.30
and Australia and South America,
00:48:44.33\00:48:45.67
Canada, the Islands of the Sea.
00:48:45.70\00:48:47.54
Thank you for
coming. Good night.
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And remember as you go
00:48:49.11\00:48:50.14
as we say at the end of
our broadcast every single day.
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Remember, friend,
God really does love you.
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Good night.
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