1 00:00:31,419 --> 00:00:31,867 Man, if you wouldn't. 2 00:00:31,867 --> 00:00:34,304 Your Bibles tonight, turn to Daniel, chapter two. 3 00:00:34,604 --> 00:00:36,224 Daniel, Chapter two. 4 00:00:44,844 --> 00:00:46,060 We did have some handouts. 5 00:00:46,092 --> 00:00:47,276 I guess some of those were passed out. 6 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:48,924 I know there wasn't enough for everybody. 7 00:00:48,964 --> 00:00:50,196 Did some of y'all get some of those? 8 00:00:50,260 --> 00:00:50,940 Everybody? 9 00:00:51,092 --> 00:00:52,624 No, no. 10 00:00:53,724 --> 00:00:55,244 Hope some of you did, some of you didn't. 11 00:00:55,284 --> 00:00:55,596 That's okay. 12 00:00:55,620 --> 00:00:56,704 You can just listen. 13 00:00:58,094 --> 00:01:00,514 It's Brother Stewart's stuff anyway, so. 14 00:01:01,774 --> 00:01:03,314 But there are two charts. 15 00:01:03,774 --> 00:01:09,110 If I may make up some more next time we meet and share those 16 00:01:09,142 --> 00:01:09,430 with you. 17 00:01:09,462 --> 00:01:13,390 But every time we study a book of the Bible, we normally do run 18 00:01:13,462 --> 00:01:17,342 through Brother Stewart, his charts. 19 00:01:17,478 --> 00:01:19,854 He's like the master chart builder. 20 00:01:20,014 --> 00:01:21,998 And it does help to kind of give an overview. 21 00:01:22,046 --> 00:01:25,364 And that's what we're going to do tonight, an overview the book. 22 00:01:25,744 --> 00:01:29,624 And so Daniel, chapter two, verse 28 is where we'll start. 23 00:01:29,784 --> 00:01:32,184 And we're gonna look at three verses really quick, and then we'll 24 00:01:32,224 --> 00:01:32,804 pray. 25 00:01:33,184 --> 00:01:34,304 So get your thumbs ready. 26 00:01:34,344 --> 00:01:35,776 It's gonna be kind of a Bible study tonight. 27 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:36,684 Y'all ready? 28 00:01:37,104 --> 00:01:39,364 Daniel, chapter 2, verse 28. 29 00:01:40,904 --> 00:01:42,884 But there is a God in heaven. 30 00:01:43,904 --> 00:01:45,124 Just stop there. 31 00:01:46,904 --> 00:01:52,952 So Daniel's telling the king there is a God in heaven that revealeth 32 00:01:53,008 --> 00:01:57,360 secrets and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall 33 00:01:57,392 --> 00:01:58,764 be in the latter days. 34 00:01:59,064 --> 00:02:03,088 Thy dream and thy visions of thy head upon thy bed are these. 35 00:02:03,136 --> 00:02:05,248 And he goes in to explain the vision. 36 00:02:05,296 --> 00:02:09,888 But again, the point here is, but there is a God in heaven. 37 00:02:09,936 --> 00:02:13,834 Look over to Daniel, chapter 4 and verse 25. 38 00:02:13,938 --> 00:02:16,484 Daniel, chapter 4, verse 25. 39 00:02:17,564 --> 00:02:21,452 Again, if you know this chapter, King Nebuchadnezzar kind 40 00:02:21,468 --> 00:02:25,668 of started bragging about all that he had accomplished, all that 41 00:02:25,716 --> 00:02:26,664 he had done. 42 00:02:27,324 --> 00:02:30,504 And then he gets this word from God. 43 00:02:30,844 --> 00:02:32,864 Daniel, chapter 4, verse 25. 44 00:02:33,444 --> 00:02:37,452 And what it's describing here is what's going to happen to Nebuchadnezzar 45 00:02:37,508 --> 00:02:38,204 because of what he did. 46 00:02:38,244 --> 00:02:42,716 And for seven years, King Nebuchadnezzar eats grass like a 47 00:02:42,740 --> 00:02:46,150 cow and just goes crazy for about seven years. 48 00:02:46,302 --> 00:02:50,190 So look, it says that they shall drive thee from men. 49 00:02:50,302 --> 00:02:53,394 So God is describing what they're going to do to Nebuchadnezzar. 50 00:02:53,814 --> 00:02:57,406 And thy dwelling shall be with beasts of the field. 51 00:02:57,590 --> 00:03:02,470 And they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall 52 00:03:02,502 --> 00:03:04,710 wet thee with the dew of the heaven. 53 00:03:04,902 --> 00:03:07,166 And seven times shall pass over thee. 54 00:03:07,230 --> 00:03:08,194 Seven years. 55 00:03:08,534 --> 00:03:10,782 Till thou know that the Most High. 56 00:03:10,838 --> 00:03:11,754 Listen to this. 57 00:03:13,024 --> 00:03:18,124 Till thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men 58 00:03:19,024 --> 00:03:22,404 and giveth it to whomever he will. 59 00:03:23,704 --> 00:03:27,952 God's reminding King Nebuchadnezzar that God rules in 60 00:03:27,968 --> 00:03:32,680 the affairs of men, that it's God who sets kingdoms up and takes 61 00:03:32,712 --> 00:03:37,324 them down, it's God who puts rulers on the throne and. 62 00:03:37,994 --> 00:03:39,654 Or sets them aside. 63 00:03:40,954 --> 00:03:45,826 And I do believe it'll be interesting, but I think Nebuchadnezzar 64 00:03:45,850 --> 00:03:47,374 will probably be in heaven with us. 65 00:03:47,754 --> 00:03:52,530 And anyway, turn over, if you would, one more Daniel, chapter five, 66 00:03:52,602 --> 00:03:56,814 just a page over and verse 23. 67 00:03:57,314 --> 00:04:01,258 And this is that story most of you will remember if you've read 68 00:04:01,306 --> 00:04:07,266 the story or you have heard it preached about Belshazzar as he had 69 00:04:07,290 --> 00:04:11,362 this big drunken party and took the vessels from the house of 70 00:04:11,378 --> 00:04:13,294 God and brought them into the party. 71 00:04:14,114 --> 00:04:15,914 And this is what God says. 72 00:04:15,954 --> 00:04:17,634 But look at verse 23. 73 00:04:17,674 --> 00:04:22,426 But Hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven, and they 74 00:04:22,450 --> 00:04:25,506 have brought the vessels of his house before thee, talking about 75 00:04:25,530 --> 00:04:27,506 the vessels they brought from the house of God. 76 00:04:27,570 --> 00:04:31,858 And thou and thy lords and thy wives and thy concubines have drunk 77 00:04:31,906 --> 00:04:33,386 wine in them. 78 00:04:33,570 --> 00:04:36,834 They took the vessels from the house of God and drank wine in them. 79 00:04:36,994 --> 00:04:40,826 And thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold and brass and 80 00:04:40,850 --> 00:04:45,814 iron and wood and stone, which see not, nor hear nor know. 81 00:04:47,394 --> 00:04:48,210 Listen to this. 82 00:04:48,282 --> 00:04:55,974 And the God in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy ways, 83 00:04:56,314 --> 00:05:03,834 hast thou not glorified the God in whom your very breath is, 84 00:05:03,914 --> 00:05:10,426 the God who is in control of all thy ways, all the things that 85 00:05:10,530 --> 00:05:13,266 you're going to experience in the future, Everything that you do 86 00:05:13,370 --> 00:05:19,418 is God, the God who holds your breath, but you haven't glorified 87 00:05:19,466 --> 00:05:20,054 him. 88 00:05:23,594 --> 00:05:29,682 There is a God in heaven, there is a God who sets up kingdoms 89 00:05:29,738 --> 00:05:31,214 and puts them down. 90 00:05:32,114 --> 00:05:36,454 And there is a God who holds our very breath in his hands. 91 00:05:38,114 --> 00:05:40,218 God rules in the affairs of men. 92 00:05:40,266 --> 00:05:42,018 That's the theme of the Book of Daniel. 93 00:05:42,186 --> 00:05:43,978 God rules in the affairs of men. 94 00:05:44,066 --> 00:05:49,134 I think that's so appropriate for today to be reminded. 95 00:05:51,154 --> 00:05:53,374 Whatever happens Tuesday happens. 96 00:05:54,194 --> 00:05:56,894 God rules in the affairs of man. 97 00:05:57,314 --> 00:06:05,450 God sets on the throne and God is the one who again makes the way. 98 00:06:05,522 --> 00:06:05,890 Let's pray. 99 00:06:05,922 --> 00:06:09,490 Heavenly Father, we love you and we thank you for the wonderful 100 00:06:09,562 --> 00:06:11,746 truth that you are in control. 101 00:06:11,850 --> 00:06:14,266 And Lord may be reminded of that. 102 00:06:14,290 --> 00:06:18,292 May we trust you as we ought in these dark days. 103 00:06:18,468 --> 00:06:21,996 I pray, God that you would encourage us also tonight and help 104 00:06:22,020 --> 00:06:24,996 us to be like Daniel and his three friends. 105 00:06:25,060 --> 00:06:26,476 Help us to stand today. 106 00:06:26,540 --> 00:06:31,064 Help us to be shining lights in a perverse culture. 107 00:06:32,044 --> 00:06:35,532 And Lord, we're looking forward to that blessed hope and 108 00:06:35,548 --> 00:06:36,424 your return. 109 00:06:37,204 --> 00:06:39,052 We thank you and Love you in Jesus name. 110 00:06:39,108 --> 00:06:40,900 Amen again. 111 00:06:40,932 --> 00:06:43,644 As we said a couple of weeks ago, we're living in the last days. 112 00:06:43,764 --> 00:06:46,024 In fact, we're living in the last of the last days. 113 00:06:46,704 --> 00:06:49,856 He even told the disciples, the disciples were told, you're living 114 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:50,944 in the last days. 115 00:06:51,104 --> 00:06:52,664 But we're living in the last, the last days. 116 00:06:52,704 --> 00:06:54,768 We're living in the times of the Gentiles. 117 00:06:54,816 --> 00:06:57,364 And even again, the time of the end of the Gentiles. 118 00:06:58,104 --> 00:07:01,296 We described second Timothy chapter three that describes the 119 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,472 cultureship that'll take place in the last days. 120 00:07:03,528 --> 00:07:05,524 And men shall be lovers of themselves. 121 00:07:05,824 --> 00:07:07,744 And it goes, it gives you that big long list. 122 00:07:07,784 --> 00:07:10,604 You can go look at that in two Timothy chapter three and verse one. 123 00:07:11,634 --> 00:07:12,330 And when J.C. 124 00:07:12,362 --> 00:07:14,898 house was here the last time he got to really preach for us, he 125 00:07:14,986 --> 00:07:19,202 used that phrase, the world is not falling apart, it's falling into 126 00:07:19,258 --> 00:07:19,930 place. 127 00:07:20,122 --> 00:07:22,134 The world is not falling apart. 128 00:07:23,394 --> 00:07:28,938 I saw someone preaching on one of the things I saw anyway, a man 129 00:07:28,986 --> 00:07:35,054 preaching and he was saying the same thing, do not lose hope. 130 00:07:35,554 --> 00:07:38,362 You know, we do live in a dark time. 131 00:07:38,458 --> 00:07:40,824 We live in a just a weird time. 132 00:07:40,864 --> 00:07:43,520 But understand it's not falling apart, it's falling in place. 133 00:07:43,592 --> 00:07:44,632 God has a plan. 134 00:07:44,768 --> 00:07:46,696 We do believe one of the major themes. 135 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:48,360 There are three major themes in the Bible. 136 00:07:48,472 --> 00:07:51,912 And one of those major themes found throughout all of the Bible 137 00:07:51,968 --> 00:07:53,496 is consummationism. 138 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,004 In other words, God's going to keep his plan. 139 00:07:57,304 --> 00:07:58,656 God knows what happens in the end. 140 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,408 I read the back of the book and we win. 141 00:08:00,576 --> 00:08:01,432 And we know that. 142 00:08:01,488 --> 00:08:04,964 So we are not absolutely not without hope. 143 00:08:06,634 --> 00:08:09,194 The Word of God gives us hope in these times. 144 00:08:09,234 --> 00:08:12,002 And this is what we preached on a couple weeks ago. 145 00:08:12,178 --> 00:08:14,214 The Word of God is what gives us hope. 146 00:08:14,754 --> 00:08:18,474 It's the word of God that unveils to us and reveals to us what 147 00:08:18,514 --> 00:08:19,734 is going to happen. 148 00:08:20,914 --> 00:08:26,694 It's amazing how the Bible's prophecy is so accurate. 149 00:08:27,234 --> 00:08:32,994 The accuracy of the Bible, the reliability of its prophets, astounding. 150 00:08:35,974 --> 00:08:41,342 Revealing to us the people and events and places to look for in 151 00:08:41,358 --> 00:08:42,354 the end times. 152 00:08:42,894 --> 00:08:44,914 The Antichrist is coming. 153 00:08:45,774 --> 00:08:48,414 He will step out and you can see it now, can't you? 154 00:08:48,454 --> 00:08:52,526 You can see how a man could step out on the scene and say, hey, 155 00:08:52,550 --> 00:08:54,302 I've got the solution to all this. 156 00:08:54,478 --> 00:09:01,664 I can bring peace and bring together all nations together, one 157 00:09:01,704 --> 00:09:04,484 world government which we know will take place in the end times. 158 00:09:06,024 --> 00:09:10,968 Again, we know the prophets are warning us of dark days, but 159 00:09:11,136 --> 00:09:13,184 encouraging us of greater days ahead. 160 00:09:13,304 --> 00:09:17,888 I love how the prophets will warn Israel, I'm going to punish 161 00:09:17,936 --> 00:09:18,524 you. 162 00:09:18,864 --> 00:09:25,042 This is what's going to happen to you, but God's gonna bless you 163 00:09:25,178 --> 00:09:28,786 and God's gonna reveal to you and there are greater days ahead. 164 00:09:28,930 --> 00:09:33,258 He does that in all the prophets, the two sides. 165 00:09:33,346 --> 00:09:34,322 I love that. 166 00:09:34,458 --> 00:09:36,402 So it's good to be reminded of that. 167 00:09:36,578 --> 00:09:41,066 Judgment is coming right on one hand, but God is coming on the 168 00:09:41,090 --> 00:09:41,706 other. 169 00:09:41,890 --> 00:09:46,130 And so again, we see all the prophets kind of have that same theme 170 00:09:46,162 --> 00:09:49,572 running throughout their books again. 171 00:09:49,628 --> 00:09:52,224 Bible prophecy is so amazingly accurate. 172 00:09:53,404 --> 00:09:55,820 We know this by all the prophecies that have already been 173 00:09:55,852 --> 00:10:01,716 fulfilled, whether it's the virgin birth or the resurgence of 174 00:10:01,740 --> 00:10:05,144 Israel and Israel returning to their homeland. 175 00:10:05,604 --> 00:10:11,744 It's amazing how the Bible, the prophets, are coming to realization. 176 00:10:12,404 --> 00:10:15,700 Second Peter, chapter three warns us of scoffers in the last 177 00:10:15,732 --> 00:10:19,236 days, those who would mock the Bible and mock the truths of the 178 00:10:19,260 --> 00:10:19,922 Bible. 179 00:10:20,108 --> 00:10:23,274 We see a growing number of scoffers in our world today. 180 00:10:23,734 --> 00:10:27,814 Atheists who claim they don't believe there is a God. 181 00:10:27,974 --> 00:10:29,510 By the way, God doesn't believe in them either. 182 00:10:29,582 --> 00:10:31,678 So I just. 183 00:10:31,766 --> 00:10:33,566 God doesn't believe in atheists anyway. 184 00:10:33,590 --> 00:10:34,994 I won't go into that tonight. 185 00:10:36,214 --> 00:10:41,394 Second Peter, chapter three, verse three tells us why they scoff 186 00:10:42,014 --> 00:10:47,354 at God's truth, why many of them scoff at God's existence because 187 00:10:47,434 --> 00:10:49,574 they walk after their own lusts. 188 00:10:51,314 --> 00:10:53,894 They do not want to be accountable to a creator. 189 00:10:54,954 --> 00:10:58,850 They don't want to think about what God said in those three verses. 190 00:10:58,882 --> 00:11:02,054 We just said there is a God in heaven. 191 00:11:04,754 --> 00:11:07,814 He rules over all the kingdoms. 192 00:11:09,394 --> 00:11:11,468 Our breath is in his hands. 193 00:11:11,666 --> 00:11:13,152 Our ways are in his hands. 194 00:11:13,208 --> 00:11:19,764 They don't want to accept that they walk after their own lust. 195 00:11:20,464 --> 00:11:23,240 I want to encourage you tonight as I encourage myself, to 196 00:11:23,272 --> 00:11:28,416 be steadfast and faithful and unmovable in the last days that we 197 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:28,840 do stand. 198 00:11:28,872 --> 00:11:32,312 As I said this morning, and I just stuck it on the end as a tagline 199 00:11:32,368 --> 00:11:33,912 this morning of the service. 200 00:11:33,968 --> 00:11:38,032 But it's important for you as a Christian to vote for you as a 201 00:11:38,048 --> 00:11:41,118 Christian to stand when you can, right? 202 00:11:41,246 --> 00:11:45,830 To stand when you can, do what you can, what God gives you the opportunity 203 00:11:45,862 --> 00:11:46,238 to do. 204 00:11:46,286 --> 00:11:48,274 And God's given you the opportunity to vote. 205 00:11:49,614 --> 00:11:52,790 And we could have said many years ago that sometimes our vote 206 00:11:52,822 --> 00:11:55,154 didn't really, you know, because. 207 00:11:55,854 --> 00:12:00,302 But today, and I was looking again how some of these states were 208 00:12:00,438 --> 00:12:02,874 won by 10,000 votes. 209 00:12:03,654 --> 00:12:07,222 Your vote matters, you say, well, Texas, that's not going to 210 00:12:07,238 --> 00:12:08,234 happen in Texas. 211 00:12:09,194 --> 00:12:12,014 Notice lately the way the trend's going in Texas. 212 00:12:12,874 --> 00:12:18,858 I'm telling you, we need to be steadfast and faithful in these last 213 00:12:18,906 --> 00:12:19,494 days. 214 00:12:21,434 --> 00:12:27,214 As I mentioned in the last message in the intro here, I said, 215 00:12:27,674 --> 00:12:33,714 and I quote, a quality and consistent walk with God is what 216 00:12:33,754 --> 00:12:35,414 will preserve your faith. 217 00:12:37,104 --> 00:12:41,524 A quality, consistent walk with God. 218 00:12:42,104 --> 00:12:45,912 And I use the term quality instead of quantity because the quality 219 00:12:45,968 --> 00:12:46,964 is more important. 220 00:12:47,864 --> 00:12:53,064 And that is you spend time with the Lord and walk with him and 221 00:12:53,104 --> 00:12:57,384 talk with him and do so in a way that is effective in your own 222 00:12:57,424 --> 00:12:57,816 life. 223 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:02,040 That may mean five minutes instead of 30 minutes, because you're 224 00:13:02,072 --> 00:13:02,976 able to concentrate more. 225 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,272 I don't know who's like that. 226 00:13:04,448 --> 00:13:05,684 No, I'm just kidding. 227 00:13:06,384 --> 00:13:10,084 But, you know, maybe it's spending time on your way to work. 228 00:13:10,624 --> 00:13:16,192 Whatever it takes to take that time to walk with God on a daily 229 00:13:16,248 --> 00:13:16,536 basis. 230 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:17,684 Trust in him. 231 00:13:18,224 --> 00:13:18,896 Trust in him. 232 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:19,664 Our theme for the year. 233 00:13:19,704 --> 00:13:22,164 Trust in him with all your heart. 234 00:13:22,984 --> 00:13:29,152 And as Daniel did, be reminded of how important it is to have the 235 00:13:29,208 --> 00:13:31,244 understanding of the times you live in. 236 00:13:31,784 --> 00:13:34,684 And that we as Christians shouldn't bury our heads in the sand. 237 00:13:36,064 --> 00:13:36,884 Amen. 238 00:13:38,584 --> 00:13:39,568 It's so important. 239 00:13:39,656 --> 00:13:41,360 God rules in the affairs of man. 240 00:13:41,512 --> 00:13:42,844 He is on the throne. 241 00:13:43,184 --> 00:13:44,672 He is on the throne, as I've already said. 242 00:13:44,688 --> 00:13:46,832 He raises up nations, he takes them down. 243 00:13:46,928 --> 00:13:49,680 He raises up leaders and kings and presidents, and he takes them 244 00:13:49,712 --> 00:13:50,336 down. 245 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,008 God rules in the affairs of men. 246 00:13:54,136 --> 00:13:58,944 If you have the chart on the back, on one side of it is a chart 247 00:13:58,984 --> 00:13:59,658 like this. 248 00:13:59,776 --> 00:14:00,134 How many? 249 00:14:00,174 --> 00:14:00,678 Raise your. 250 00:14:00,766 --> 00:14:01,966 If you have the chart, raise it up. 251 00:14:01,990 --> 00:14:02,694 How many y'all. 252 00:14:02,814 --> 00:14:03,166 Actually. 253 00:14:03,230 --> 00:14:04,934 Does only one person have the chart? 254 00:14:05,054 --> 00:14:05,454 Can we. 255 00:14:05,494 --> 00:14:06,398 Can we go to the back? 256 00:14:06,446 --> 00:14:07,474 A couple of men. 257 00:14:07,774 --> 00:14:09,166 And there. 258 00:14:09,230 --> 00:14:10,794 There's a stack of them there. 259 00:14:11,654 --> 00:14:12,686 It is important. 260 00:14:12,830 --> 00:14:16,222 This is more of a lesson, and I want you to see it, because this 261 00:14:16,238 --> 00:14:17,086 is pretty cool. 262 00:14:17,230 --> 00:14:19,300 So brother Stewart does have some good charts every once in a 263 00:14:19,302 --> 00:14:21,914 while, but sometimes it takes some splaining. 264 00:14:23,414 --> 00:14:24,278 Splaining. 265 00:14:24,406 --> 00:14:28,700 Sometimes his charts, it takes some splaining to do for you to get 266 00:14:28,732 --> 00:14:29,092 them. 267 00:14:29,188 --> 00:14:30,772 And so one per family. 268 00:14:30,948 --> 00:14:32,584 We don't have enough for everybody. 269 00:14:34,404 --> 00:14:35,028 Brother Josh. 270 00:14:35,076 --> 00:14:39,324 It takes explaining sometimes on brother Sturt's charts, but this 271 00:14:39,364 --> 00:14:44,184 particular chart is called Daniel and His Times and Contemporaries. 272 00:14:44,684 --> 00:14:46,556 And so it gives you kind of a timeline. 273 00:14:46,620 --> 00:14:47,596 It's pretty cool. 274 00:14:47,740 --> 00:14:48,852 And I always. 275 00:14:48,908 --> 00:14:49,972 I love these charts. 276 00:14:50,068 --> 00:14:55,678 One of my favorite charts that brother Stewart took and improved 277 00:14:55,846 --> 00:14:58,994 is a chart out of Ryrie's study Bible. 278 00:14:59,454 --> 00:15:01,982 Several other men have made charts about it, but it gives you 279 00:15:02,078 --> 00:15:05,974 all the chronological order of the Bible in a chart form. 280 00:15:06,134 --> 00:15:07,502 And this is kind of the same thing. 281 00:15:07,558 --> 00:15:12,358 Kind of gives you the order of the book of Daniel and the timeframe 282 00:15:12,526 --> 00:15:16,774 and the contemporaries, those who are prophesying during the same 283 00:15:16,814 --> 00:15:22,578 Time, the kings that are ruling at the same time as Daniel. 284 00:15:22,746 --> 00:15:26,850 And so it really does help you in understanding the book if you 285 00:15:26,882 --> 00:15:29,850 kind of, in your mind, know what's going on. 286 00:15:29,962 --> 00:15:33,906 One of the big things to know that's going on, and this is not 287 00:15:33,930 --> 00:15:38,974 on the chart, but is to be be reminded that when. 288 00:15:40,194 --> 00:15:45,194 That when Solomon died, the kingdom of Israel split into two 289 00:15:45,234 --> 00:15:46,054 kingdoms. 290 00:15:46,644 --> 00:15:48,148 It's split into two kingdoms. 291 00:15:48,196 --> 00:15:51,804 The northern kingdom made up of ten tribes, the southern kingdom 292 00:15:51,844 --> 00:15:53,264 made up of two tribes. 293 00:15:54,364 --> 00:15:55,344 And so. 294 00:15:56,404 --> 00:15:58,028 And then time marches on. 295 00:15:58,076 --> 00:16:01,708 But the northern kingdom, which is referred to in the Bible 296 00:16:01,756 --> 00:16:07,116 as Israel, normally, the southern kingdom, usually referred 297 00:16:07,140 --> 00:16:09,284 to as the. 298 00:16:09,404 --> 00:16:11,464 Is usually referred to as Judah. 299 00:16:12,054 --> 00:16:12,526 All right. 300 00:16:12,590 --> 00:16:13,238 Primarily. 301 00:16:13,366 --> 00:16:17,302 So when you're reading the prophets or you're reading in kings 302 00:16:17,478 --> 00:16:20,574 and Chronicles, that's kind of what you'll see. 303 00:16:20,694 --> 00:16:22,374 It was confusing for me as a kid. 304 00:16:22,454 --> 00:16:23,478 I never really. 305 00:16:23,606 --> 00:16:24,966 I didn't quite catch it. 306 00:16:25,070 --> 00:16:27,286 I really didn't catch it until I got in Bible college, to be honest 307 00:16:27,310 --> 00:16:27,862 with you. 308 00:16:27,958 --> 00:16:32,078 And then the first couple of weeks at college, I'm going, oh, 309 00:16:32,166 --> 00:16:32,974 that's why. 310 00:16:33,054 --> 00:16:33,834 You know. 311 00:16:34,294 --> 00:16:37,796 But if you can ever, in your mind just truly get this, it'll help 312 00:16:37,820 --> 00:16:38,196 you. 313 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:40,460 Cause sometimes you're reading and you're going, why is there two 314 00:16:40,492 --> 00:16:41,740 kings of Israel? 315 00:16:41,932 --> 00:16:42,964 Well, there's not two kings. 316 00:16:43,004 --> 00:16:44,956 There's a king of the northern kingdom, there's a king of the southern 317 00:16:44,980 --> 00:16:45,624 kingdom. 318 00:16:46,044 --> 00:16:50,020 And so understand that the northern kingdom never had a good 319 00:16:50,052 --> 00:16:50,664 king. 320 00:16:52,364 --> 00:16:56,612 They were all ungodly, had a lot of prophets that preached to 321 00:16:56,628 --> 00:17:00,304 them, have them to return, to come back to God. 322 00:17:00,684 --> 00:17:05,308 And so they were carried into captivity by the Assyrians in 722 323 00:17:05,356 --> 00:17:06,024 BC. 324 00:17:06,334 --> 00:17:10,382 All right, so the Assyrians came in and captured and took the 325 00:17:10,438 --> 00:17:12,886 Northern Kingdom, those 10 tribes into captivity. 326 00:17:12,990 --> 00:17:13,670 Remember the story? 327 00:17:13,702 --> 00:17:16,478 They tried to come down and take the southern kingdom, and God 328 00:17:16,526 --> 00:17:18,114 intervened in a mighty way. 329 00:17:18,574 --> 00:17:22,846 Over 100,000 of them died outside the walls of Jerusalem of 330 00:17:22,870 --> 00:17:23,318 their armies. 331 00:17:23,366 --> 00:17:28,934 It was pretty amazing what God did with Hezekiah and so forth. 332 00:17:29,094 --> 00:17:30,950 And so time marches on. 333 00:17:31,062 --> 00:17:34,174 God had warned the southern kingdom that they too would go into 334 00:17:34,214 --> 00:17:35,034 captivity. 335 00:17:35,714 --> 00:17:38,106 And they just kind of snubbed their nose at God and said, dan, 336 00:17:38,130 --> 00:17:39,578 you will never do that to us. 337 00:17:39,746 --> 00:17:42,170 You would never allow Jerusalem to be defeated. 338 00:17:42,282 --> 00:17:45,170 You know, you'd never allow the temple to be destroyed. 339 00:17:45,282 --> 00:17:46,578 I mean, that's where God dwells. 340 00:17:46,626 --> 00:17:49,418 God dwells between the cherubs and the holy of holies, there in 341 00:17:49,426 --> 00:17:49,770 the temple. 342 00:17:49,802 --> 00:17:54,658 There's no way the Shekinah glory, literally the light, the representation 343 00:17:54,706 --> 00:17:56,898 of God setting in the holy of Holies. 344 00:17:56,946 --> 00:17:59,338 No way God's going to allow that to be captured and taken. 345 00:17:59,466 --> 00:18:03,036 Well, he's already proven before that when the Ark of the Covenant 346 00:18:03,060 --> 00:18:03,756 was taken before. 347 00:18:03,820 --> 00:18:04,704 But anyway. 348 00:18:05,204 --> 00:18:06,484 And so they stubbed their nose. 349 00:18:06,524 --> 00:18:11,244 Well, of course, God did fulfill and God did judge the southern 350 00:18:11,284 --> 00:18:11,940 kingdom. 351 00:18:12,092 --> 00:18:13,948 And that's where we come to Daniel. 352 00:18:13,996 --> 00:18:20,024 Daniel is a part of and was carried into captivity by King Nebuchadnezzar 353 00:18:20,644 --> 00:18:28,320 in the southern kingdom in 606 BC so the northern kingdom went into 354 00:18:28,443 --> 00:18:35,110 captivity in 722 BC that was the Assyrians, who were the world 355 00:18:35,182 --> 00:18:36,390 power at the time. 356 00:18:36,582 --> 00:18:39,874 The Babylonians defeated the Assyrians. 357 00:18:40,614 --> 00:18:41,718 So kind of get it now. 358 00:18:41,766 --> 00:18:43,206 Then you have the Babylonians. 359 00:18:43,310 --> 00:18:45,874 By the way, the Babylonians also defeated Egypt. 360 00:18:46,334 --> 00:18:48,798 And Babylon king Nebuchadnezzar. 361 00:18:48,926 --> 00:18:53,046 Man, he was absolutely a world power almost to the extent as we 362 00:18:53,070 --> 00:18:56,774 think about the Roman, you know, Roman rule. 363 00:18:58,394 --> 00:19:03,074 He had a lot of land that he was the king of a lot of nations. 364 00:19:03,194 --> 00:19:04,494 He was the king of. 365 00:19:04,994 --> 00:19:10,138 But this little bitty nation in the center, this little southern 366 00:19:10,186 --> 00:19:16,530 kingdom, this little bitty thing, Nebuchadnezzar came in and 367 00:19:16,562 --> 00:19:22,780 again and carried them in, defeated, Burned the walls of Jerusalem, 368 00:19:22,972 --> 00:19:24,664 burned the temple. 369 00:19:25,524 --> 00:19:27,904 Not one stone stood on top of another. 370 00:19:28,644 --> 00:19:32,516 Decimated the temple and Jerusalem. 371 00:19:32,620 --> 00:19:34,108 All right, so that's where we're at. 372 00:19:34,236 --> 00:19:38,212 So here you see at the top of the chart it says dates of the chapters. 373 00:19:38,348 --> 00:19:39,724 So you have chapter one and two. 374 00:19:39,764 --> 00:19:44,148 And you can look then go down the chart that gives you the ruling 375 00:19:44,316 --> 00:19:44,956 empire. 376 00:19:45,060 --> 00:19:46,828 So who was ruling at the time? 377 00:19:46,996 --> 00:19:47,904 Babylon. 378 00:19:48,364 --> 00:19:49,740 Babylon neo. 379 00:19:49,812 --> 00:19:50,804 The new Babylon. 380 00:19:50,884 --> 00:19:55,224 There had already been a Babylon before over in Genesis. 381 00:19:55,564 --> 00:19:56,464 Nimrod? 382 00:19:57,044 --> 00:19:57,780 Anybody? 383 00:19:57,892 --> 00:19:59,628 I don't have time to go back over there. 384 00:19:59,756 --> 00:20:01,812 But there are three Babylons in the Bible. 385 00:20:01,908 --> 00:20:05,864 There's the one in Genesis, there's this one and the future Babylon. 386 00:20:06,364 --> 00:20:08,264 So it's kind of interesting, isn't it? 387 00:20:08,844 --> 00:20:12,424 Then if you look under that, you can see the various kings. 388 00:20:13,604 --> 00:20:18,516 And then our primary thoughts are with Nebuchadnezzar, who comes 389 00:20:18,540 --> 00:20:23,860 on the scene there in the book of Daniel, comes and defeats the 390 00:20:23,932 --> 00:20:25,184 city of Jerusalem. 391 00:20:25,484 --> 00:20:28,292 You can see right below that, you see where it says the temple 392 00:20:28,348 --> 00:20:35,108 destroyed in 586 BC all right, so they come in in 606 BC first. 393 00:20:35,276 --> 00:20:39,880 So we call it the three deportations of the children of Israel. 394 00:20:40,012 --> 00:20:43,200 They come in Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar. 395 00:20:43,352 --> 00:20:46,816 Nebuchadnezzar comes in at 606 BC and carries away captivity. 396 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,168 All the choice people like the princes and those who were highly 397 00:20:50,216 --> 00:20:53,880 educated and so forth, carries them away. 398 00:20:54,072 --> 00:20:57,336 Then in 597, he comes and carries away some more. 399 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:04,204 And then in 586, when the last king of Israel, Zedekiah, tried to, 400 00:21:05,794 --> 00:21:16,218 you know, create mutiny and try to, you know, become king again 401 00:21:16,306 --> 00:21:20,954 instead of just a puppet king, then they were wiped out. 402 00:21:21,074 --> 00:21:25,026 And Nebuchadnezzar came in and wiped Jerusalem again. 403 00:21:25,090 --> 00:21:26,914 Not one stone left on another. 404 00:21:27,034 --> 00:21:28,394 Just completely wiped it out. 405 00:21:28,434 --> 00:21:32,178 And the.586, the rest of the children of Israel, except the very 406 00:21:32,226 --> 00:21:35,780 poorest of them, were carried into captivity into Babylon. 407 00:21:35,972 --> 00:21:38,740 So get the idea now, understand, the Babylonians defeated 408 00:21:38,772 --> 00:21:39,784 the Assyrians. 409 00:21:40,284 --> 00:21:43,660 The Assyrians carried the children of Israel into Assyria. 410 00:21:43,852 --> 00:21:45,420 Now you have the Babylonians in control. 411 00:21:45,492 --> 00:21:49,476 So you already have the majority of the northern kingdom 412 00:21:49,580 --> 00:21:50,864 in captivity. 413 00:21:51,364 --> 00:21:54,184 And then now the southern kingdom is joining them. 414 00:21:54,844 --> 00:21:55,944 You see that? 415 00:21:56,964 --> 00:21:59,268 Because the Babylonians defeated the Assyrians. 416 00:21:59,316 --> 00:22:03,934 Now you have all the children of Israel again, except for a remnant 417 00:22:04,234 --> 00:22:05,494 in captivity. 418 00:22:06,834 --> 00:22:08,066 Look under there. 419 00:22:08,250 --> 00:22:08,794 Under the. 420 00:22:08,834 --> 00:22:10,186 Where it says, temple Jerusalem destroyed. 421 00:22:10,210 --> 00:22:10,666 580. 422 00:22:10,730 --> 00:22:11,894 Everybody's still good. 423 00:22:12,594 --> 00:22:15,254 Okay, I like this stuff. 424 00:22:17,674 --> 00:22:19,854 Bible structure helps me. 425 00:22:20,634 --> 00:22:22,930 Knowing the structure of it kind of. 426 00:22:23,002 --> 00:22:23,938 It helps me. 427 00:22:24,066 --> 00:22:26,334 I know maybe some it doesn't, but it helps me. 428 00:22:26,634 --> 00:22:28,506 Then you see the 70 years of exile. 429 00:22:28,570 --> 00:22:31,042 Okay, so God promised the children of Israel that when they 430 00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:34,077 went into captivity, that they would be there 70 years. 431 00:22:34,203 --> 00:22:35,458 70 years. 432 00:22:35,626 --> 00:22:36,210 I love it. 433 00:22:36,242 --> 00:22:39,650 I mean, even naming King Cyrus as the one who would allow them to 434 00:22:39,682 --> 00:22:40,494 go back. 435 00:22:41,394 --> 00:22:43,114 And underneath that, look at Daniel. 436 00:22:43,154 --> 00:22:44,594 There's Daniel's timeline. 437 00:22:44,754 --> 00:22:48,218 Daniel is all the way from that first king of. 438 00:22:48,346 --> 00:22:49,698 I'm not gonna try to pronounce his name. 439 00:22:49,746 --> 00:22:53,094 Napopolassar, whatever his name is. 440 00:22:53,964 --> 00:22:57,668 Daniel was born during his reign. 441 00:22:57,796 --> 00:22:59,464 But understand that Daniel. 442 00:23:00,124 --> 00:23:03,824 Daniel was alive when King Cyrus came into. 443 00:23:04,164 --> 00:23:09,628 That's why sometimes we'll say, maybe it was Daniel who went 444 00:23:09,676 --> 00:23:14,384 to Cyrus and said, hey, your name's in our book. 445 00:23:15,444 --> 00:23:16,664 Wouldn't that be cool? 446 00:23:17,044 --> 00:23:18,164 Somebody did, I think. 447 00:23:18,204 --> 00:23:18,444 I mean. 448 00:23:18,484 --> 00:23:19,544 Cause it's in there. 449 00:23:20,004 --> 00:23:20,476 Hey. 450 00:23:20,540 --> 00:23:22,106 125 years ago. 451 00:23:22,214 --> 00:23:25,580 150 years ago, Isaiah put your name in our book. 452 00:23:25,612 --> 00:23:26,236 It's pretty cool. 453 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:28,260 Anyway, maybe it's not as cool for y'all as it is for me. 454 00:23:28,292 --> 00:23:28,988 I just. 455 00:23:29,156 --> 00:23:30,224 It's amazing. 456 00:23:31,524 --> 00:23:38,524 Daniel lived to be maybe even 90 years old and still had a major 457 00:23:38,604 --> 00:23:41,924 influence in the government. 458 00:23:42,084 --> 00:23:45,502 If you go below that, you'll see the last kings of Israel, the 459 00:23:45,518 --> 00:23:47,510 last kings of the last five kings of Israel. 460 00:23:47,542 --> 00:23:48,422 You have Josiah. 461 00:23:48,478 --> 00:23:53,462 Remember, Josiah is the one who was a righteous king and one 462 00:23:53,478 --> 00:23:57,134 of Judah's very best kings and brought the kingdom back to God and 463 00:23:57,214 --> 00:23:58,874 great revivals broke out. 464 00:24:00,254 --> 00:24:06,994 We can say, though, that those revivals were mainly one of emotions 465 00:24:08,254 --> 00:24:11,954 and not truly a heart transformation. 466 00:24:12,344 --> 00:24:14,088 And you can go read about that. 467 00:24:14,256 --> 00:24:16,484 But Josiah was a great king. 468 00:24:16,824 --> 00:24:19,664 Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah. 469 00:24:19,824 --> 00:24:21,624 The Bible says that he was an evil king. 470 00:24:21,664 --> 00:24:24,524 He reigned three months and he got taken out. 471 00:24:24,864 --> 00:24:30,124 Then Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, again was placed on the throne 472 00:24:30,984 --> 00:24:31,416 again. 473 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,564 They were really puppet kings of Egypt. 474 00:24:35,104 --> 00:24:41,690 And then you had Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, again only ruled 475 00:24:41,762 --> 00:24:42,282 three months. 476 00:24:42,338 --> 00:24:47,458 He's the one whom God judged and said that your family will not 477 00:24:47,506 --> 00:24:48,546 sit on the throne. 478 00:24:48,650 --> 00:24:50,226 And that's a whole nother sermon. 479 00:24:50,370 --> 00:24:52,414 Then the last king is Zedekiah. 480 00:24:52,834 --> 00:24:53,842 Zedekiah. 481 00:24:53,978 --> 00:24:56,314 He was placed on the throne by Nebuchadnezzar. 482 00:24:56,474 --> 00:24:58,334 He reigned about 13 years. 483 00:24:59,154 --> 00:25:02,898 He rebelled and the Babylonian king had his sons killed before him 484 00:25:02,946 --> 00:25:06,004 and his eyes put out by the Babylonians. 485 00:25:07,504 --> 00:25:11,296 By the way, it's a prophet about King Zedekiah that he would 486 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,044 go into captivity with his. 487 00:25:14,544 --> 00:25:19,272 With the rest of them, but he would not see them. 488 00:25:19,448 --> 00:25:22,944 So there's a prophecy, if you understood it, that he was going 489 00:25:22,944 --> 00:25:24,204 to lose his eyeballs. 490 00:25:28,304 --> 00:25:33,356 Maybe somebody should have came and told him, because, yeah, 491 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:36,204 if you look at the chart again, you've got the last kings 492 00:25:36,244 --> 00:25:37,012 of Israel. 493 00:25:37,148 --> 00:25:42,380 And then if you go to the side there, go west, young man, go west. 494 00:25:42,572 --> 00:25:44,228 I think that was an old contemporary song. 495 00:25:44,276 --> 00:25:46,464 Sorry, Zerubbabel. 496 00:25:47,484 --> 00:25:50,940 Zerubbabel leads the first return of the exiles back to Jerusalem 497 00:25:50,972 --> 00:25:51,940 in 539. 498 00:25:52,012 --> 00:25:53,860 Again, Cyrus makes that decree. 499 00:25:54,012 --> 00:25:58,622 By the way, Cyrus, we know again the Babylonians were defeated 500 00:25:58,758 --> 00:26:00,014 by the Medo Persian empire. 501 00:26:00,054 --> 00:26:01,518 We'll cover that chapter there. 502 00:26:01,606 --> 00:26:05,190 Belshazzar and all those things that when the Medo Persian 503 00:26:05,222 --> 00:26:07,718 empire defeated the Babylonians. 504 00:26:07,806 --> 00:26:12,318 So Zerubbabel leads back a great company of people to Jerusalem 505 00:26:12,366 --> 00:26:15,438 to begin to rebuild the temple. 506 00:26:15,526 --> 00:26:22,046 And then Ezra leads back a host of people in 458. 507 00:26:22,070 --> 00:26:23,230 And then Nehemiah leads. 508 00:26:23,262 --> 00:26:26,594 He's the last return of the exiles in 445. 509 00:26:27,704 --> 00:26:31,208 And so you have the three returns of the children of Israel. 510 00:26:31,296 --> 00:26:33,124 If you look right above that. 511 00:26:33,904 --> 00:26:34,248 Go ahead. 512 00:26:34,256 --> 00:26:36,688 And I'm sorry, look below again, look below that. 513 00:26:36,736 --> 00:26:39,640 You have Jeremiah's ministry happening during Daniel's. 514 00:26:39,712 --> 00:26:41,904 Ezekiel's ministry is happening during the same time. 515 00:26:41,944 --> 00:26:43,288 So they're contemporaries. 516 00:26:43,456 --> 00:26:45,144 Haggai is a little after. 517 00:26:45,264 --> 00:26:46,624 Maybe again they knew each other. 518 00:26:46,664 --> 00:26:48,744 Maybe a little Zechariah ministry. 519 00:26:48,784 --> 00:26:49,576 You can see that below. 520 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,644 Now go back up to where it says. 521 00:26:52,114 --> 00:26:55,064 Go to the left of the chart and go to 6:26. 522 00:26:55,169 --> 00:26:56,634 Everybody see that? 523 00:26:56,739 --> 00:26:57,210 626. 524 00:26:57,242 --> 00:26:58,574 Everybody got your eyes on that? 525 00:26:59,154 --> 00:27:00,914 And then follow that to the right. 526 00:27:00,994 --> 00:27:04,535 606, that's the first deportation. 527 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:05,258 597. 528 00:27:05,403 --> 00:27:07,427 The second deportation. 529 00:27:07,571 --> 00:27:08,149 586. 530 00:27:08,294 --> 00:27:10,318 The third deportation. 531 00:27:10,462 --> 00:27:14,414 582, 562, 553, 539, they return. 532 00:27:14,994 --> 00:27:16,186 And then you can go throughout there. 533 00:27:16,210 --> 00:27:17,114 And I will stop there. 534 00:27:17,154 --> 00:27:19,354 But kind of gives you an understanding of what's going on, 535 00:27:19,394 --> 00:27:20,968 the timeline that's taking place. 536 00:27:21,146 --> 00:27:22,344 That chart help you? 537 00:27:23,084 --> 00:27:24,212 It does me. 538 00:27:24,388 --> 00:27:25,100 You can go home. 539 00:27:25,132 --> 00:27:26,236 You can look at that some more. 540 00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:27,924 If you have questions, let me know. 541 00:27:28,084 --> 00:27:31,884 And so it gives you those contemporaries, gives you the timeline. 542 00:27:31,924 --> 00:27:35,060 Now you can flip that over to the back and you'll see Daniel's 543 00:27:35,092 --> 00:27:35,824 overview. 544 00:27:37,324 --> 00:27:41,268 And I got the pulpit about five minutes early, so we might just 545 00:27:41,316 --> 00:27:42,704 go ahead and use the time. 546 00:27:43,204 --> 00:27:44,484 So the overview. 547 00:27:44,644 --> 00:27:45,716 Overview of the timeline. 548 00:27:45,740 --> 00:27:47,464 So look at there at the top of the chart. 549 00:27:48,594 --> 00:27:53,098 It says, encourages the Jews in exile while being a witness to 550 00:27:53,146 --> 00:27:54,346 his captors. 551 00:27:54,530 --> 00:28:00,194 All right, so Daniel is witnessing to those Jews in exile. 552 00:28:00,314 --> 00:28:03,810 He's encouraging them, but he's also being a witness to the 553 00:28:03,842 --> 00:28:05,890 captors, those who captured him. 554 00:28:06,042 --> 00:28:08,682 And again, I believe Nebuchadnezzar will be in heaven. 555 00:28:08,818 --> 00:28:11,802 It's amazing that that could happen. 556 00:28:11,898 --> 00:28:14,190 But Daniel was such a witness that then look under there. 557 00:28:14,222 --> 00:28:18,494 It says, the true God's sovereign rule and his future program 558 00:28:18,574 --> 00:28:20,734 for Jew and gentile. 559 00:28:20,894 --> 00:28:23,462 All right, so God rules in the affairs of man. 560 00:28:23,518 --> 00:28:24,714 He is sovereign. 561 00:28:25,014 --> 00:28:26,874 He is overall. 562 00:28:28,334 --> 00:28:29,274 Overall. 563 00:28:29,694 --> 00:28:33,934 But there is a program he's put in place for the Jew and gentile. 564 00:28:33,974 --> 00:28:38,406 So we'll discuss about what the Jew's role is, not only what 565 00:28:38,470 --> 00:28:43,506 their role was during the time of Daniel and before that, but what 566 00:28:43,530 --> 00:28:45,538 is the future role of the Jews. 567 00:28:45,706 --> 00:28:47,130 God has not. 568 00:28:47,282 --> 00:28:49,146 God is not done with the Jews. 569 00:28:49,330 --> 00:28:51,854 The Jews are still God's chosen people. 570 00:28:52,434 --> 00:28:57,114 The church did not replace the Jews, no matter what your YouTuber 571 00:28:57,194 --> 00:28:57,814 says. 572 00:28:59,994 --> 00:29:04,194 It's amazing what stuff goes on on podcasts and YouTubers and 573 00:29:04,234 --> 00:29:05,254 what you'll believe. 574 00:29:05,804 --> 00:29:07,852 God's not finished with Israel. 575 00:29:07,868 --> 00:29:09,624 You gotta think about the Jews. 576 00:29:10,324 --> 00:29:13,780 And one of the illustrations Brother Stewart uses a lot is you 577 00:29:13,812 --> 00:29:16,356 think about the Jews and you think about a railroad track. 578 00:29:16,540 --> 00:29:18,860 Think about a train on a track. 579 00:29:19,012 --> 00:29:22,604 And that train represents the Jews, and it's on a single track. 580 00:29:22,764 --> 00:29:26,164 And as it's heading down the road, as it's heading down the road, 581 00:29:26,204 --> 00:29:32,162 as it's heading down the track, it comes to, you know, the 582 00:29:32,218 --> 00:29:37,254 death and the burial and resurrection of Christ, that timeline. 583 00:29:37,554 --> 00:29:43,306 And when that timeline happens, that train goes off that 584 00:29:43,370 --> 00:29:46,618 track and diverts down to a track below it. 585 00:29:46,666 --> 00:29:53,130 So somebody, not somebody, the Lord throws the switch and now that 586 00:29:53,162 --> 00:29:55,514 train is on another track. 587 00:29:55,674 --> 00:29:58,348 It's not that it's not on a track, it's on a track. 588 00:29:58,396 --> 00:30:00,092 God's got a plan for Israel. 589 00:30:00,148 --> 00:30:04,904 Everybody with me, what comes on the track that the Jews were on 590 00:30:05,364 --> 00:30:10,460 the church when Jesus Christ died on the cross and was buried 591 00:30:10,492 --> 00:30:11,944 and rose again from the dead. 592 00:30:12,444 --> 00:30:15,812 And then he had already established his church while here 593 00:30:15,828 --> 00:30:16,584 on earth. 594 00:30:17,324 --> 00:30:18,396 He established it. 595 00:30:18,460 --> 00:30:21,144 Not the apostles, not John the Baptist. 596 00:30:21,604 --> 00:30:23,798 The church didn't start in Acts, chapter two. 597 00:30:23,956 --> 00:30:25,894 Jesus said, I will build my church. 598 00:30:26,314 --> 00:30:28,614 And so he started it with the apostles. 599 00:30:28,994 --> 00:30:34,946 And so that is now the on the track in which God is influencing 600 00:30:34,970 --> 00:30:35,850 the world with. 601 00:30:35,962 --> 00:30:37,658 How is God going to reach the world? 602 00:30:37,706 --> 00:30:39,010 How is the Lord going to reach the world? 603 00:30:39,042 --> 00:30:39,722 With the gospel. 604 00:30:39,818 --> 00:30:40,834 He's doing it through the church. 605 00:30:40,874 --> 00:30:43,690 He was doing it through the Jew, now he's doing it through the 606 00:30:43,722 --> 00:30:44,218 church. 607 00:30:44,346 --> 00:30:48,170 So the church now is God's primary mouthpiece to share the good 608 00:30:48,202 --> 00:30:49,280 news of the Gospel. 609 00:30:49,442 --> 00:30:53,796 Before the death, burial and resurrection, the old covenant, the 610 00:30:53,820 --> 00:30:57,436 old contract, the Jews were the primary mouthpiece to share the 611 00:30:57,460 --> 00:30:58,100 gospel. 612 00:30:58,252 --> 00:31:00,464 And they did a lousy job. 613 00:31:01,444 --> 00:31:03,884 And so God brought them off the track. 614 00:31:04,044 --> 00:31:05,424 But guess what happens? 615 00:31:06,924 --> 00:31:09,824 One day a rapture will take place. 616 00:31:10,484 --> 00:31:12,148 Now, the Bible doesn't use the word rapture. 617 00:31:12,196 --> 00:31:14,540 It says we'll be caught up with him to be in the air. 618 00:31:14,572 --> 00:31:16,172 And so shall we ever be with the Lord. 619 00:31:16,268 --> 00:31:17,236 First Thessalonians. 620 00:31:17,340 --> 00:31:18,060 And when we're. 621 00:31:18,132 --> 00:31:21,414 When the church and that again. 622 00:31:21,754 --> 00:31:24,574 I believe the church to be all the church is. 623 00:31:24,874 --> 00:31:28,978 And those who have been saved will be caught up to be with the 624 00:31:28,986 --> 00:31:29,786 Lord in the air. 625 00:31:29,890 --> 00:31:31,694 When that happens, guess what happens? 626 00:31:32,314 --> 00:31:39,450 The train of the church, that locomotive, it goes bye bye. 627 00:31:39,482 --> 00:31:42,854 It's not there no more because it's now with the Lord. 628 00:31:43,514 --> 00:31:47,504 And the Jews come back onto the track. 629 00:31:48,124 --> 00:31:54,864 And during the tribulation, it is the Jews and the Jewish evangelists, 630 00:31:56,764 --> 00:32:03,108 over 100,000 of them, who will be the primary mouthpiece for God 631 00:32:03,276 --> 00:32:04,704 in giving the gospel. 632 00:32:05,684 --> 00:32:07,224 It's an amazing thing. 633 00:32:07,684 --> 00:32:08,764 It's an amazing thing. 634 00:32:08,844 --> 00:32:10,664 God is not done with the Jews. 635 00:32:11,414 --> 00:32:13,394 They are still God's chosen people. 636 00:32:14,094 --> 00:32:19,158 And one day they will see him for who he is and they will accept 637 00:32:19,206 --> 00:32:20,674 him as their Messiah. 638 00:32:22,934 --> 00:32:23,686 Get to preaching. 639 00:32:23,710 --> 00:32:27,694 Don't I look at your chart again. 640 00:32:27,814 --> 00:32:30,550 From the fading unto the captivity. 641 00:32:30,702 --> 00:32:35,950 All right, so you see the kingdom of Israel fading as it splits, 642 00:32:36,102 --> 00:32:37,314 starts to fade. 643 00:32:37,754 --> 00:32:40,242 Then the northern kingdoms carried off into captivity. 644 00:32:40,298 --> 00:32:41,778 It begins to Fade even more. 645 00:32:41,906 --> 00:32:43,882 Then the southern kingdom's carried off into captivity. 646 00:32:43,938 --> 00:32:49,426 So now from the fading unto captivity and past the fall of Jerusalem. 647 00:32:49,610 --> 00:32:52,426 So that's the timeline here we're going to see in the book of 648 00:32:52,450 --> 00:32:53,134 Daniel. 649 00:32:53,434 --> 00:32:56,370 Now, the next little area we've already covered, we went to 650 00:32:56,402 --> 00:32:57,010 these verses. 651 00:32:57,082 --> 00:33:01,826 There is a God in heaven till thou know that the Most High ruleth 652 00:33:01,850 --> 00:33:05,574 in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomever he will. 653 00:33:07,824 --> 00:33:12,048 Then the God in whom thy breath is, and whose all thy ways 654 00:33:12,216 --> 00:33:13,804 thou hast not glorified. 655 00:33:14,704 --> 00:33:17,776 Then in chapters one through six, you have the historical setting 656 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,608 or historical part. 657 00:33:19,736 --> 00:33:22,008 And then chapters seven through 12, prophetical. 658 00:33:22,056 --> 00:33:25,024 Now, there are some also prophetical in the historical section 659 00:33:25,064 --> 00:33:28,364 as well, but that's primarily how it's divided into. 660 00:33:29,024 --> 00:33:31,840 All right, and so chapters one, it gives you all the different 661 00:33:31,872 --> 00:33:32,360 chapters there. 662 00:33:32,392 --> 00:33:37,104 Under there, it gives you the primary kings during those chapters. 663 00:33:37,144 --> 00:33:40,408 The primary king from chapter one to chapter four is Nebuchadnezzar. 664 00:33:40,536 --> 00:33:42,560 Then chapter five is Belshazzar. 665 00:33:42,632 --> 00:33:45,284 Now understand, Belshazzar was not a king. 666 00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:46,888 He was not the. 667 00:33:46,936 --> 00:33:47,360 He was not. 668 00:33:47,392 --> 00:33:49,976 He was a king, but he wasn't the primary king. 669 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:55,032 He was a regent ruler under Belshazzar. 670 00:33:55,088 --> 00:33:57,000 Everybody with me, I'm sorry. 671 00:33:57,032 --> 00:33:58,024 Under Nebuchadnezzar. 672 00:33:58,104 --> 00:33:59,604 We'll cover that when we get there. 673 00:34:01,314 --> 00:34:04,610 And then we have Darius coming again when the Medo Persian empire 674 00:34:04,642 --> 00:34:05,934 defeated the Babylonians. 675 00:34:06,394 --> 00:34:09,434 And then chapter seven, we have Belshazzar again under the Babylonians, 676 00:34:09,514 --> 00:34:12,866 Belshazzar in chapter eight, and then Darius again in the Medo 677 00:34:12,890 --> 00:34:16,140 Persian empire in chapter nine, and then Cyrus in chapter 10 678 00:34:16,208 --> 00:34:16,854 through 12. 679 00:34:17,274 --> 00:34:19,466 All right, look down at the bottom chart. 680 00:34:19,570 --> 00:34:22,506 All right, so the bottom of the chart, 606 to 605, we have four 681 00:34:22,570 --> 00:34:25,810 promising Royal Jewish captives in the University of Babylon 682 00:34:25,842 --> 00:34:27,212 in preparation for government service. 683 00:34:27,258 --> 00:34:29,144 So you have Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego. 684 00:34:29,184 --> 00:34:29,336 Right. 685 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,248 And Daniel. 686 00:34:30,416 --> 00:34:36,552 So the story there as they enter into Babylon University, I 687 00:34:36,568 --> 00:34:39,880 just, again, it blows me away to think that these four young men, 688 00:34:39,912 --> 00:34:44,440 they would have been teenagers, probably 17, 18, 16, and 689 00:34:44,512 --> 00:34:47,200 they were carried into captivity because they were of the 690 00:34:47,312 --> 00:34:51,944 rulers, they were kids and young people of the princes. 691 00:34:52,064 --> 00:34:53,824 They were carried into captivity and they were put into 692 00:34:53,864 --> 00:35:00,102 a situation and into a college as such, where they were inundated 693 00:35:00,278 --> 00:35:02,794 with Babylonian culture. 694 00:35:03,534 --> 00:35:05,150 Babylonian culture. 695 00:35:05,342 --> 00:35:06,794 Everybody understand that? 696 00:35:08,614 --> 00:35:11,274 When I think about that, I want to look at something real quick. 697 00:35:14,014 --> 00:35:15,350 I brought way too many notes. 698 00:35:15,382 --> 00:35:16,794 And we're not going to cover all this. 699 00:35:18,494 --> 00:35:21,388 When they enter into that college. 700 00:35:21,476 --> 00:35:23,588 It wasn't a college per se. 701 00:35:23,756 --> 00:35:25,704 Just Anyway, stay with me. 702 00:35:26,004 --> 00:35:28,384 They moved them from Jerusalem to Babylon. 703 00:35:29,404 --> 00:35:31,984 They were disconnected from family. 704 00:35:33,804 --> 00:35:36,464 They were disconnected from their Jewish roots. 705 00:35:38,044 --> 00:35:41,252 They had to learn Babylonian, Chaldean. 706 00:35:41,428 --> 00:35:42,904 They learned a new language. 707 00:35:44,364 --> 00:35:47,424 Their learning would cover all areas of study. 708 00:35:48,484 --> 00:35:50,064 They changed their names. 709 00:35:51,404 --> 00:35:57,124 They changed their names from godly names to, again, evil names 710 00:35:57,164 --> 00:36:00,060 or, you know, again, Babylonian names. 711 00:36:00,092 --> 00:36:01,852 So, like, for instance, Daniel. 712 00:36:01,988 --> 00:36:04,340 Daniel's name means God is my judge. 713 00:36:04,532 --> 00:36:09,188 They changed his name to Belteshazzar, which means, may BAAL 714 00:36:09,276 --> 00:36:10,584 protect his life. 715 00:36:12,004 --> 00:36:17,632 Hananiah, his name means Jehovah is gracious to Shadrach. 716 00:36:17,728 --> 00:36:23,664 I mean, again, all their names were changed to Babylonian names 717 00:36:23,744 --> 00:36:26,804 that identified with gods of the Babylonians. 718 00:36:31,144 --> 00:36:36,164 They changed their lifestyle, the way they dress, their diet. 719 00:36:36,904 --> 00:36:38,644 They changed everything about them. 720 00:36:39,464 --> 00:36:42,764 They wanted them to disconnect from their roots. 721 00:36:43,744 --> 00:36:45,604 I'm telling you, we're seeing that today. 722 00:36:47,144 --> 00:36:51,240 I am telling you, don't I know our group tonight, and I'm preaching 723 00:36:51,272 --> 00:36:51,808 to the choir. 724 00:36:51,856 --> 00:36:53,124 But don't be naive. 725 00:36:54,704 --> 00:36:56,512 You say, well, preacher, you believe in conspiracies? 726 00:36:56,568 --> 00:36:56,832 I do. 727 00:36:56,848 --> 00:37:01,136 In the educational system, the public education system. 728 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,304 I'm thankful we have some conservative public education systems 729 00:37:04,344 --> 00:37:05,204 around us. 730 00:37:05,664 --> 00:37:08,964 But we see the hour in which that won't be the case anymore. 731 00:37:09,484 --> 00:37:13,184 We see the darkening taking place, the indoctrination. 732 00:37:13,484 --> 00:37:16,184 See, Daniel and his three friends were indoctrinated. 733 00:37:17,204 --> 00:37:18,852 That's what they wanted them to learn. 734 00:37:18,908 --> 00:37:20,860 Everything about the Babylonians, all the Jewish culture. 735 00:37:20,892 --> 00:37:24,652 They wanted them to disconnect from God, Jehovah and from all their 736 00:37:24,668 --> 00:37:29,024 roots and connect to their gods and so forth. 737 00:37:29,404 --> 00:37:33,700 And we see that happening in our public school system around the 738 00:37:33,732 --> 00:37:37,394 nation and also especially in the universities. 739 00:37:40,454 --> 00:37:42,114 We have to be Daniels. 740 00:37:44,054 --> 00:37:51,594 We have to be Michelle and Azariah and Hananiah. 741 00:37:52,534 --> 00:37:56,902 We have to teach our kids to be Daniels, teach our grandkids to 742 00:37:56,918 --> 00:37:57,914 be Daniels. 743 00:37:58,614 --> 00:38:00,870 Well, preacher, we got them at Heritage Christian Academy. 744 00:38:00,902 --> 00:38:02,234 I'm thankful for that, too. 745 00:38:02,624 --> 00:38:04,952 And I think as a parent, I would protect my kids as much as 746 00:38:04,968 --> 00:38:07,004 I can and as much as I possibly can. 747 00:38:07,904 --> 00:38:10,124 But understand the exposure is still there. 748 00:38:10,464 --> 00:38:14,520 That thing they hold in their hand, all the other things they are 749 00:38:14,552 --> 00:38:19,968 exposed to and way more than we experienced. 750 00:38:20,056 --> 00:38:22,616 And I used to say that when I was a youth pastor, I'd say, well, 751 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,040 they experienced it way more than I. 752 00:38:25,152 --> 00:38:26,564 Just amazing, isn't it? 753 00:38:27,754 --> 00:38:29,254 May we be Daniels? 754 00:38:31,034 --> 00:38:33,290 If you look down again, we're not going to have time to go through 755 00:38:33,322 --> 00:38:35,210 all these chapters, but you can go through and look at it. 756 00:38:35,242 --> 00:38:37,962 The second chapter has to do with the stone that was cut out of 757 00:38:37,978 --> 00:38:42,530 the mountain, picturing Jesus Christ that rolls and stumbles and 758 00:38:42,562 --> 00:38:43,642 cuts things down. 759 00:38:43,778 --> 00:38:45,546 The 90 foot golden image. 760 00:38:45,610 --> 00:38:51,010 In chapter three and chapter four again, Nebuchadnezzar has a 761 00:38:51,042 --> 00:38:55,150 second dream and he becomes insane. 762 00:38:55,322 --> 00:38:59,358 Chapter five, we have the party of Belshazzar and we'll cover 763 00:38:59,406 --> 00:38:59,854 that. 764 00:38:59,974 --> 00:39:06,034 Chapter six, the entrapment of Daniel and in the lion's den. 765 00:39:06,334 --> 00:39:09,734 And then chapter seven, the prophetic beasts and the visions 766 00:39:09,774 --> 00:39:10,606 of Daniel. 767 00:39:10,750 --> 00:39:14,114 And that'll correlate with Revelation as well. 768 00:39:14,934 --> 00:39:18,110 And then chapter eight, Belshazzar again, prophetic vision 769 00:39:18,142 --> 00:39:20,314 of the ram and the horns and all those things. 770 00:39:20,694 --> 00:39:26,609 Darius in chapter chapter nine and the 70 weeks we'll cover that 771 00:39:26,658 --> 00:39:26,857 again. 772 00:39:26,907 --> 00:39:28,596 What are the 70 weeks of Daniel? 773 00:39:28,646 --> 00:39:31,736 And then in chapters 10 through 12, Cyrus when he allows 774 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,004 the children of Israel to return. 775 00:39:33,344 --> 00:39:37,696 And again the prefigure of in the Middle east and the nations that 776 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:38,720 will rise up. 777 00:39:38,872 --> 00:39:41,804 And so we'll spend a lot of time in prophecy. 778 00:39:42,144 --> 00:39:48,552 I'm reminded that by the way, in the New Testament, Daniel, the 779 00:39:48,568 --> 00:39:51,324 book of Daniel was quoted 152 times. 780 00:39:53,004 --> 00:39:55,596 Can I remind you that the Old Testament is foundational to the 781 00:39:55,620 --> 00:39:56,504 New Testament. 782 00:39:58,404 --> 00:40:04,420 You have to know, you will understand Revelation far better 783 00:40:04,492 --> 00:40:08,464 if you understand the Book of Daniel, if you know the Book of Daniel. 784 00:40:08,844 --> 00:40:12,064 It's one of the foundations of the book of Revelation. 785 00:40:12,804 --> 00:40:14,144 I'll end with this. 786 00:40:16,484 --> 00:40:18,664 That was number one of my conclusion. 787 00:40:19,844 --> 00:40:23,344 Foundation of the New Testament is the Old Testament. 788 00:40:23,724 --> 00:40:25,984 It's important that you know it. 789 00:40:26,404 --> 00:40:29,532 The New Testament writers wrote in light of that, you already 790 00:40:29,588 --> 00:40:30,984 know your Old Testament. 791 00:40:32,524 --> 00:40:34,972 Secondly, I've already mentioned this, what an example Daniel 792 00:40:35,028 --> 00:40:35,624 was. 793 00:40:37,004 --> 00:40:41,005 He could stand in his 80s when he was 80 and 90 years old because 794 00:40:41,057 --> 00:40:42,584 he stood when he was 17. 795 00:40:45,494 --> 00:40:49,206 As I said when we started the message, election day is coming two 796 00:40:49,230 --> 00:40:50,034 days away. 797 00:40:50,574 --> 00:40:53,782 And one of the things the devil loves to do is to likes to 798 00:40:53,798 --> 00:40:55,034 put fear in our heart. 799 00:40:57,934 --> 00:40:59,854 I'm telling you, be not afraid. 800 00:40:59,974 --> 00:41:01,874 The Bible says don't be afraid. 801 00:41:02,174 --> 00:41:06,154 Trust in him, put your hope in him. 802 00:41:08,094 --> 00:41:09,934 Politicians aren't our hopes. 803 00:41:12,824 --> 00:41:17,304 The Lord is God, rules in the affairs of men. 804 00:41:17,464 --> 00:41:18,920 Trust in him. 805 00:41:18,952 --> 00:41:19,504 Let's all stand. 806 00:41:19,544 --> 00:41:20,784 We'll have a verse invitation tonight.