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0:01[Music]
0:08well in response to so many questions
0:10that we've received in recent
0:12times we thought it' be useful to try to
0:15put together a basic primer on Prophecy
0:18many people for the first time in their
0:20lives are asking serious questions where
0:23in the Bible does it say this or that
0:25and what's coming are we in the end
0:27times and what about America and so
0:30forth very basic questions and so we
0:33thought it would be useful to try to
0:35cover these materials from a ground
0:37floor from scratch without and we'll try
0:39not to jump into too much Bible or
0:43jargon that tends to puncture our
0:45conversation so frequently we're going
0:47to do this in four sessions this first
0:50session of course is the introduction
0:52and we're going to deal with two issues
0:53we're going to try to talk about the
0:55nature of Prophecy what are we dealing
0:58with when we talk prophecy
1:00and secondly how sure can we be aren't
1:04there theories and ideas like this
1:06throughout the ages hasn't everyone
1:08always felt that they were approaching
1:10the end times where do we come off being
1:12so certain that we're approaching an
1:15important period of time so that's the
1:17first session the first thing we're
1:19going to talk about is the nature of
1:22time we take time for granted we uh uh
1:26it's a it's a it all goes back to some
1:28basic fundamentals that most of us may
1:30not have thought much about let me take
1:32you back to high school uh geometry or
1:37trigonometry if we have a
1:39triangle and we add up the angles in
1:41that triangle it adds up to how much 180
1:45degrees right on and no matter what kind
1:48of a triangle we draft if we add up the
1:50angles it always adds up to 180 degrees
1:52how many of you learned that rule in
1:54school sure okay well
1:57suppose we go out together in a large
2:00field nearby with a Transit and we lay
2:04out a very large triangle and we add up
2:07the angles of that triangle and it adds
2:09up to more than 180
2:11degrees what would you conclude that
2:13Chuck screwed up again huh no what we've
2:17encountered is a curvature of the earth
2:19you see this little rule that we all
2:21learned in school is only true for a
2:24universe of two dimensions that's why
2:27it's called plain trigonometry or plain
2:29geometry
2:30and if you have more than 180 deg it
2:33implies that you've encountered a convex
2:37curvature in fact if you take a course
2:39in spherical navigation or in navigation
2:42you'll include in that course some
2:44spherical trigonometry in which you can
2:46have a triangle with 90 degrees in each
2:48Corner because it's it's in a third
2:51dimension now if you have a triangle
2:53with less than 180° you're in a
2:55hyperbolic paraboloid but I don't think
2:57that's ever concerned any of us here so
2:58I'll just move on by throw that in for
3:00those of you that are mathematically
3:02oriented this is the kind of insight
3:05that caused Dr Albert Einstein as he was
3:08grappling with the nature of space and
3:10time itself to come up with a special
3:13theory of relativity in 1905 in which he
3:15realized that length mass and velocity
3:17and time are relative to The Observers
3:20measuring them but he generalized that
3:22in 1915 to the general theory of
3:24relativity and what's important about
3:26that to us here is that it result ol
3:29olves the fact that there is no
3:31distinction between time and space in
3:34fact a physicist will always speak of
3:36SpaceTime you and I speak of space and
3:38time separately but uh the general
3:41theory of relativity ties them together
3:43in fact Einstein recognized that we live
3:46in not three but four dimensions and
3:48this is no longer just a theory it's
3:50been confirmed over 14 ways to better
3:52than 19 decimals that's today a basic uh
3:56Insight of
3:57science one of the things we want
4:00understand is that
4:02time can change let me give you an
4:05example it's a very graphic example
4:07there are atomic clocks these are clocks
4:09that are extremely precise there's an
4:12atomic clock located at the National
4:14Institute of tech standards and
4:15technology in Boulder
4:17Colorado there's an identical clock
4:19virtually identical clock at the Royal
4:21Observatory in Greenwich England and
4:25these devices are accurate to better
4:27than 1 second in a Million years in fact
4:31the recent one in installed in Boulder
4:34is accurate to better than 1 second in
4:3520 million years and these all based on
4:39the natural Resonance of the cesium atom
4:42which can be exploited to render
4:43incredibly precise time standards but
4:47the reason I bring this up is the one in
4:50Boulder at nist it ticks five microsc
4:54per year faster than an identical clock
4:56at
4:58Greenwich which one is corre
5:00correct they both are these are
5:04extremely precise clocks and yet they
5:06differ 5 millionths of a second per year
5:08why because the one at Boulder Colorado
5:10is at 5400 feet above sea level and the
5:13one at granch England is only 80 feet
5:14above sea level you see if you take an
5:17atomic clock and raise it by one meter
5:20it speeds up by one part and 10 to the
5:2216th not enough to change your personal
5:25schedules but it it's predictable and
5:27measurable time changes with a
5:30difference in gravity among other things
5:32now there are other demonstrations they
5:33actually took atomic clocks like this
5:35and put it on an airplane going around
5:37the world Eastward and it lost 0059
5:40microseconds compared to on at rest at
5:42the observatory they sent one around the
5:45world Westward and it gained 273
5:48microseconds and I won't go through the
5:49reasons by the time you account for all
5:51the motions and differences that's
5:53exactly what the theories predicted
5:55that's exactly what was measured but
5:57perhaps the most provocative example
6:00which you'll read about if you study a
6:01textbook in this area is the example
6:04that's usually cited of two hypothetical
6:06astronauts these are two imaginary
6:09astronauts that are born at the same
6:10instant and we're going to send one of
6:13them to the nearest star now if we look
6:16at the night sky the stars all look
6:18different brightnesses but they're all
6:20actually at different distances but the
6:22one that's closest to the earth is a
6:24star called Alpha centuri it's the third
6:27brightest in the heavens and uh from the
6:30Earth to Alpha centuri is about four and
6:32a half Lighty years distance in
6:34astronomy we measure distances by the
6:36amount the distance that light will
6:38travel in a year and Alpha centara is
6:41essentially
6:424.5 light years away from the earth now
6:46if we send our theoretical astronaut to
6:49Alpha centuri and back at half the speed
6:53of light let's assume we could do that
6:55then it would take him nine years to get
6:57there and nine years back follow me so
7:00far the question is that's Earth time
7:03where we are what does his clock read as
7:07he makes this trip well that's
7:09calculated by What's called the lorence
7:11Transformations and the time in the
7:13spaceship is uh will be in these 18
7:17years on the earth his clock will only
7:19read 15 years and uh 15 years and seven
7:22months in other words he will be more
7:24than 2 years and 5 months younger than
7:27his twin
7:28brother now if that doesn't bother you
7:30you weren't listening carefully
7:32okay see time for him is different than
7:36time for us on the earth because by
7:38nature of his velocity and so forth to
7:40dramatize this let me indulge in the
7:42fiction that we could send him at
7:4599.99% of the speed of light I'm not
7:47suggesting we could do that there's some
7:49other problems but let's assume we could
7:50if we and that would take then nine
7:52years for him to make the round trip on
7:54our calendar but on his clock it would
7:58be only 33 days
8:00you see it's it's his time is different
8:02than ours I think it was Dr Gerald
8:06Schroeder who's a worldclass nuclear
8:09physicist participated in six of the
8:10Atomic Bomb Blast he makes his
8:11headquarters in Jerusalem he's a good
8:13friend he's the one that's pointed out
8:15in some of his writings that if you take
8:16the expansion of the earth of the
8:19universe as roughly 10 to the 12th and
8:22you take the age of the universe it
8:24appears to be about 15 billion years old
8:27but that's at The Fringe of the universe
8:28if you measure that an earth time it
8:30would be guess what six days same
8:32expansion Factor but let's move on the
8:35key point for us tonight is to recognize
8:38that time is not uniform time is a
8:42physical property that's what these
8:45changes uh uh teach us see time itself
8:49varies with mass acceleration and
8:52gravity among other things you and I
8:55exist in more than three dimensions in
8:58fact we actually actually apparently
9:00exist in about 10 Dimensions now I back
9:02in 1854 in June of 1854 George reman
9:07gave the most important scientific
9:08lecture that's ever been given where he
9:10introduced the concept of metrics
9:12tensors that provided the mathematics
9:14which then 60 years later resulted in
9:17Einstein's general theory of relativity
9:19because it was reman that provided the
9:20mathematics for and Einstein applied
9:23that recognizing we have
9:24four-dimensional SpaceTime more than
9:26three dimensions and that's what we call
9:28a hyperspace hyperspaces any space
9:30within more than three dimensions and
9:32Einstein went to his death frustrated
9:34because he didn't have the insight to go
9:36another dimension it took Kusa and Klein
9:38back in 1953 to recognize by adding some
9:41more Dimensions they could resolve light
9:43and supergravity issues it was in 1963
9:46that Yang Mills the two of them
9:48developed the fields that explain
9:50electromagnetic and both the nuclear
9:51forces the weak and the strong nuclear
9:53forces the point is as scientists began
9:55to realize that there are more
9:56Dimensions involved than we're generally
9:58aware of it started resolve the classic
10:00dilemmas in physics even as recently as
10:031984 and following scientists are now
10:06speculating that we actually live for
10:08mathematical reasons in uh 10
10:10dimensional they speak of super strings
10:12and so forth and that we live in 10
10:14Dimensions I mention this because I
10:15think it's really interesting to
10:17discover that 800 years ago in the 1 in
10:20the 12th century we had nak manes who
10:24was a Hebrew sage in his study of
10:26Genesis chapter 1 came to the conclusion
10:29that the the reality consists of 10
10:31Dimensions four are directly knowable
10:34and six are not knowable in his terms
10:37what makes that interesting is this
10:39ancient Hebrew Sage studying Genesis 1
10:42came to the same conclusions that are
10:44particle physics today have concluded in
10:47that we live in 10 Dimensions four are
10:50directly measurable three spatial
10:51Dimensions length width and height and
10:53time six of them are curled to use
10:56mathematical terms are curled in less
10:58than 10us 33 cers and therefore they're
11:00just inferable by indirect means now
11:04this whole idea of the 10-dimensional
11:06universe is suggestive because the
11:08original creation of course is described
11:10in Genesis 1 verse one but we have sin
11:14introduced and we have the curse
11:16pronounced and some speculate that
11:18that's when the creation was fractured
11:21that we we are left with four dimensions
11:24we can directly sense length with height
11:26and time three spatial dimensions and
11:28time and six hyper Dimensions we call
11:31these four dimensions that we can sense
11:33the physical dimensions and the ones
11:35that may be hyperdimensional May Embrace
11:37what we generally defer by calling the
11:39spiritual Dimensions but there is a
11:41reality larger than our physical
11:42dimensions we now know that but that's
11:45what we're going to start moving into as
11:46we start talking about prophecy see the
11:49other misconceptions the part we want to
11:51do when we get into this kind of a
11:52subject is to set aside baggage
11:55misconceptions presumptions that are
11:57inaccurate that we all have most of us
11:59assume that time is linear we assume
12:01that yesterday tomorrow will be like
12:03yesterday next week like last week next
12:05month like last week we think that time
12:06is linear intrinsically and when we were
12:09in school the teacher put a line on the
12:11Blackboard from left to right the Left
12:14End would be the beginning of something
12:15the birth of the famous person or the
12:17founding of an Empire what have you the
12:19right end of the line might be the end
12:20of that person or the Empire what have
12:22you how many of you made timelines in
12:24school can I see a shove hands sure we
12:26all have and so because of that we
12:28jumped some conclusions incidentally
12:31this Dimension we call time is a strange
12:33Dimension because we can only move in
12:34One Direction you see we can only move
12:36forward and we can look
12:39back what we can't do is move
12:43back and look forward whenever I often
12:47uh in a audience like this I'll ask how
12:48many of you remember
12:50tomorrow when I I I when I give that
12:53talk in California I hesitate because
12:55I'm sure I'll get a hand or two but
12:56anyway
13:00see we can move we move forward in time
13:02and we can look back in terms of history
13:04but we can't move back it's a popular
13:07theme in fictional literature to go back
13:09in time it's it's it's a it's a very
13:11colorful uh uh instrument of of writers
13:14but it leads to paradoxes because if you
13:16can go back in time you could kill your
13:17grandfather and then you know that
13:18starts to lead into some problem so and
13:20you can play around with those ideas as
13:21just mind stretchers but the idea of
13:23moving back in time is is generally
13:25rejected by most serious thinkers but
13:28the other side what this is what we're
13:29going to try to do we're going to
13:31indulge in the opportunity to look
13:33forward but I want to show you why that
13:36would require a supernatural insight and
13:38that's exactly the point we're going to
13:39make and so there's another concept we
13:42need to set aside and that's the concept
13:43of Eternity because we think of time as
13:46linear when we encounter the concept in
13:48church or wherever of Eternity we tend
13:51to assume that that's like a line that
13:54starts at Infinity on the left and goes
13:56to Infinity on the right we tend to
13:59visualize God as someone who has lots of
14:02time that's very poetic it's very
14:05colorful it shows up in our hymns and
14:07Amazing Grace what is the fourth stanza
14:09when we've been there 10,000 years and
14:10so forth we tend to imagine eternity as
14:13simply having lots of time that's fine
14:16but it happens to be the idea that God
14:19is somebody that has lots of time is
14:21very poetic but it's bad physics what do
14:24I mean by that is God subject to the
14:27restrictions of mass hardly or
14:31acceleration or gravity of course not
14:35God is not someone with lots of time he
14:38is outside the restrictions of time
14:42itself and this uniqueness of God is his
14:46personal imprint it's like his signature
14:50it's an attribute that he exploits to
14:52authenticate his
14:54messages that's what Isaiah alludes to
14:56in Isaiah 57:15 he says but thus sayith
14:59the high and the lofty one that
15:01inhabiteth
15:03eternity
15:04now since God has the
15:08technology to create Us in the first
15:10place he certainly has the means to get
15:14a message to us obviously the trick is
15:18how does he authenticate his message how
15:20does he let us know that the message is
15:23really from him and not some kind of
15:26contrivance or a fraud of some kind
15:29well one of the ways he can do that is
15:30by relying on an attribute that's
15:32uniquely his to authenticate his message
15:36that's what Isaiah talks about in Isaiah
15:3846 he says declaring the end from the
15:41beginning and from ancient times the
15:43things that are not yet done there are
15:46dozens of verses like the scripture but
15:47they all point to the fact that God says
15:49I alone know the end from the beginning
15:51God is very jealous of that prerogative
15:53that's why seeking a horoscope or trying
15:56to indulge in some occultic medium to
15:59learn the future is considered an
16:01offense against our creator because he
16:03preserves that prerogative for himself
16:06now let's talk a little bit about the
16:08geometry of Eternity we've represented
16:09here as a line drawn on a Blackboard
16:11let's take that line and put it in three
16:13dimensions as we look back we call that
16:16the past we're in the present ahead of
16:19us is the
16:20future for us life is a sequence of
16:24events there are events that have passed
16:26they're behind us there events
16:27forthcoming that ahead of us for us it's
16:30like a parade it's very analogous in a
16:32sense like someone sitting on the curb
16:35watching a parade come around the corner
16:38for that person on the curb that's
16:39sitting there we see the the bands the
16:42marching units the floats whatever come
16:44one at a time and passes life is like a
16:47passing parade but you see for someone
16:50who is
16:51outside the plane of that existence say
16:55inhabiting
16:56eternity they're no longer restricted
16:59to that sequence events they can see the
17:01end from the
17:03beginning for God the past the present
17:05and future simultaneous God often speaks
17:07prophetically as if it's already
17:09happened because as far as he's
17:10concerned it has he's outside our time
17:12domain the analogy it's a little clumsy
17:15but the analogy it's often used it's
17:17like you're in a helicopter above the
17:19parade for you outside the plane of that
17:22Parade's existence you can see the
17:23beginning and the end
17:25simultaneously it's a crude example but
17:28it's great it's perhaps graphic that's
17:30the analogy we're talking about my
17:32favorite my favorite quote of Dr Albert
17:35Einstein it says People Like Us who
17:38believe in physics know that the
17:41distinction between the past the present
17:43and the future is only a stubbornly
17:45persistent
17:47illusion you see this past present and
17:49future thing is the only thing we know
17:51because we're within the time Dimension
17:54now we've made some strategic
17:56discoveries and our entire Ministry is
17:58based B on the uniqueness of these
18:00discoveries the first point is this book
18:03that we this collection of books we call
18:04the Bible is actually consists of 66
18:07different
18:08books that were assembled over the
18:11better part of 2,000 years and penned by
18:1540 some odd
18:16writers so we have 66 books written over
18:20thousands of years by 40 different guys
18:22who didn't even know each other and yet
18:24as we examine these 66 books we make
18:27some critical
18:29discoveries that we have in our
18:31possession an integrated message system
18:3566 separate books penned by 40 different
18:39individuals over thousands of years and
18:42yet we discover that every
18:44detail is
18:46anticipated by deliberate skillful
18:49design I don't simply mean that there's
18:51a theme in the Old Testament full fill
18:53the new much more than that we discover
18:56that every detail every number every
18:59place name even the structure hidden
19:01underneath the text evidences a master
19:04plan a master design a design that
19:06vastly goes beyond the knowledge of any
19:09of its contributors because it
19:11anticipates things thousands of years in
19:13advance that they had no way of knowing
19:15and that's the fingerprint of the real
19:17author God
19:19himself and this demonstrates that the
19:21origin of these 66
19:24books came from outside our time domain
19:27that's what we're dealing with with when
19:29we talk about prophecy it isn't just a
19:32curiosity it's a demonstration that
19:35God is real that he cares and that he
19:40has chosen to reveal to us in advance
19:43what he's all about what his plan is for
19:46the world and for you and I personally
19:49it's all there one integrated design the
19:52New Testament is in the Old Testament
19:55concealed and the Old Testament is in
19:58the new test
19:59revealed the Old
20:01Testament closes with unfulfilled
20:05yearnings unfulfilled prophecies
20:09incompleted
20:10promises and the New Testament completes
20:13it it all ties it
20:15together Jesus really gave us a guiding
20:19principle that's often
20:21overlooked he Jesus said think not that
20:23I come to destroy the Torah or the law
20:25and the prophets I come not to destroy
20:28but to fulfill for verily I say unto you
20:31till Heaven and Earth pass One yacht or
20:34one TT shall in no wise pass from the
20:36law till all be
20:39fulfilled now that yach and TI phrase
20:41may sound strange to our ears because
20:43it's a Hebrew term a yach is one of the
20:4722 Hebrew letters that you and I would
20:49mistake for an apostrophe it's the
20:51smallest little letter it's almost like
20:52a little spot on the paper a
20:55yach a tit is the little decorative hook
20:59on some of the
21:00letters now realize what Jesus is saying
21:03he says that not one yard or one TT
21:04Shall Pass till all be fulfilled that's
21:07sort of like you and I saying like the
21:10crossing of the tear the dotting of an
21:12eye this is Jesus himself underscoring
21:17that we are to take the word of God
21:21seriously and this is important for us
21:23to understand because many of these
21:25prophecies will slip away from us unless
21:27we look at what they say and realize God
21:30means what he says and says what he
21:32means in the 40 years that I've studied
21:35the Bible and done tapes and and lessons
21:38around in various places I've taught it
21:39for probably 30 years there are many
21:42times I go back in my notes or my back
21:43my old tapes and I realized some of my
21:45positions had to be changed but they've
21:48always been changed in the direction of
21:50taking it more
21:51literally every place I've gone back and
21:53realized that I didn't really fully
21:55appreciate a certain passage properly
21:57it's because even as literally as I was
21:59trying to take it I didn't take it
22:00literally enough so you not that that's
22:03correct I'm just telling you where my
22:04bias is coming from as we go recognize
22:06we're going to take we're going to take
22:07the word of God very seriously now the
22:10prophetic scriptures by at least one
22:12Reckoning have over 8,000 predictive
22:15vers according to Jer
22:188,362 predictive verses in containing
22:221,817 predictions on over 700 different
22:26matters that's from J Barton
22:28Encyclopedia of biblical prophecy
22:30different Scholars might categorize them
22:31slightly differently this is just one
22:33perspective and obviously we're going to
22:35go through these 8,000 362 predictive
22:37verses in the session no relax I'm
22:39kidding of course I'm being
22:42vicious no what we're really going to
22:44try to do is take the broad sweep and
22:46try to understand what they say
22:48collectively and uh the first thing we
22:50want to do as we go here as we start
22:53going down this path is we want to
22:56measure as we go our confidence one of
22:59the questions that we decided to set out
23:01right up front before we get into some
23:03of the other issues is how sure can we
23:07be that this really is the word of God
23:11and saying the same thing another way
23:13how sure can we be that Jesus Christ
23:17really was who he said he was or I
23:20should say is who he said he is be more
23:22precise how sure can we be
23:25now as a springboard we're going to take
23:27a look at Peter
23:29Peter's second letter happens to allude
23:32that he was an eyewitness of some of the
23:34most fantastic events in the gospel
23:36period in 2 Peter chap 1: 16 Peter says
23:40we have not followed cunningly devised
23:42fables when we made known unto you the
23:44power and coming of our Lord Jesus
23:46Christ but were eyewitness of his ma
23:48eyewitnesses of his majesty all Peter's
23:50saying
23:51here we're telling you what we saw we
23:54were
23:56eyewitnesses a few verses later he says
23:58in verse 19 he says we have also a more
24:01sure word of Prophecy where unto you do
24:04well that you take heed as unto a light
24:06that shineth in the dark place until the
24:07day Dawn and the day star arise in your
24:11hearts I want to look at the strange
24:13phrase that Peter
24:15uses Peter was an eyewitness uh he was
24:18making a specific illusion to the
24:20Transfiguration when they were up there
24:22and they saw Jesus glorified he was an
24:24eyewitness you say what could be more
24:26certain than that Peter himself says he
24:28has something even more certain than
24:29that more certain than being an
24:30eyewitness present at that time and
24:33that's what he calls the more sure word
24:35of Prophecy what is he talking about
24:38we're going to first take a look at
24:40prophecy not in the sense of gee what's
24:41going to happen next week or next month
24:43or next year let's take a look at
24:45prophecies that were spelled out and
24:48came true to prove to us that God really
24:52is who he said he is L William Thompson
24:56who later was known as Lord Kelvin one
24:57of the Great men of science is famous
25:00for pointing out that until we measure a
25:02thing we really know very little about
25:05it it's one thing to point out to a
25:07little verse here a noce how it's
25:08fulfilled there and so forth that's fine
25:11but let's see if we can do that in a way
25:13that's a little more quantitative a
25:15little more
25:16systematic and the Old Testament what
25:19the Jews would call the Tanakh we're
25:22going to talk about prophecies in the
25:24Old Testament because there's a fact
25:26about the Old Testament you can verify
25:28for yourself with any competent
25:30encyclopedia the Hebrew scriptures that
25:33we call the Old Testament the tanak to
25:35the Jew were translated into Greek by
25:39270 BC it started about 285 BC when tmy
25:43philadelphus the second funded 70
25:46Scholars to translate the Hebrew
25:48scriptures into Greek why is that so
25:50important because it's a matter of
25:52History we have copies of that work
25:54product and they were around three
25:56centuries before the gospel period
25:59That's a matter of secular record so for
26:01the moment we can set aside who wrote
26:03what book did Daniel really write Daniel
26:06all of that it was in black and white in
26:09tangible form three centuries before
26:13Jesus was preaching and so forth
26:17now these scriptures
26:20contain over
26:22300 prophecies detailing the coming
26:26Messiah over 300 prophecies that were
26:29fulfilled back in the first century uh
26:35ad so we're going to do is U by the way
26:38let me give you some samples of these
26:40and I'm just going to I'm not go 300
26:43relax but I'm just going to list the
26:45ones that are quoted in the New
26:47Testament as being
26:49fulfilled Jesus was to be of David's
26:51family you'll find that in second Samuel
26:53all through the Psalms all through
26:55Isaiah he would be born of a virgin that
26:58was hinted at in the Garden of Eden and
27:01it's also confirmed to Isaiah Isaiah
27:037:14 we always see that on the Christmas
27:05cards and so forth he would be born in
27:07Bethlehem in Micah 52 he would sojourn
27:10in Egypt in Hosea 111 he would live in
27:12Galilee in fact he'd live in Nazareth in
27:14Isaiah he would be announced in advance
27:17by an Elijah type Herald in Isaiah 40
27:19and Malachi 3 in fact the Old Testament
27:21closes with that specific
27:24promise he would occasion the massacre
27:27of bethlehem's children that's metion
27:29mentioned in Genesis 35 and Jeremiah 31
27:31and those are alluded these connections
27:33aren't contrived they are documented in
27:35the New Testament as being fulfillments
27:37of those Old
27:38Testament he would proclaim a jubilee to
27:41the world his mission would include the
27:44Gentiles yes that's all through the Old
27:46Testament his ministry would be one of
27:49healing Isaiah emphasizes he would teach
27:52through the use of Parables for a number
27:54of reasons he would be disbelieved and
27:57rejected by the Rel religious rulers of
27:59that
28:00period he would make a triumphal entry
28:02into Jerusalem he'd be betrayed for 30
28:05pieces of
28:07silver and he would be be smitten Like a
28:09Shepherd as his sheep would be scattered
28:12he would be given vinegar and G they
28:14would cast lots for his garments his
28:17side would be pierced not yet not a bone
28:19would be broken that was specified in
28:22the requirements for the Passover in
28:23Exodus 12 and uh in numbers 9 and also
28:27is declared specific specifically
28:28messianically in Psalm 34 he would die
28:32among
28:33criminals his dying words were
28:36foretold he would be buried by a rich
28:39man he would rise from the dead on the
28:42third day that's in Genesis and the
28:43Psalms in Jonah Hosea and
28:46elsewhere and his resurrection would be
28:49followed by the destruction of
28:52Jerusalem now I said these Hebrew
28:55scriptures were translated in Greek 270
28:56BC they contain over 300 prophecies
28:58we're going to go look at all 300 of
29:00them right no relax we're going to what
29:02we are going to do we're going to pick
29:04the eight simplest ones I could find
29:07just eight of them but we're going to
29:08try to quantize as them as they go we're
29:11going to look at eight of them the first
29:13one is probably familiar to most of our
29:14ears it's in Micah 52 you remember when
29:17the Magi came to Herod where is he to be
29:20that's going to be born King of the Jews
29:22and they he had his Scholars checked
29:24they dug up Micah 52 and they quote this
29:26verse as being prophetic of the Messiah
29:29it says but thou Bethlehem eph though
29:32thou be little among the thousands of
29:33Judah yet out of thee shall he come
29:35forth unto me that is to be ruler in
29:37Israel whose goings forth have been from
29:40old from Everlasting we could spend the
29:42evening on this verse there's so many
29:44things hidden away in this verse that's
29:45amazing not just that he was born in
29:47Bethlehem but that he pre-existed from
29:49the from eternity past and much more but
29:51the point is all we want to extract here
29:53is the fact that the Messiah be born in
29:56Bethlehem now I want you to stop and
29:58think about it what's the
30:01probability of somebody being born in
30:04Bethlehem over the last 2,000 years how
30:08can we approach that well we can take a
30:10look at the world and we can start
30:12zeroing in on that Middle East Israel
30:15Jerusalem as we move into Jerusalem we
30:17finally go south of Jerusalem there's a
30:19place called Bethlehem and this little
30:21town has a population of less than 7,000
30:24pretty much unchanged through
30:26history so what's the probability that
30:29somebody you ever might meet in the last
30:322,000 years was born in Bethlehem
30:37well if we assume we're going to use
30:39just round numbers and stay conservative
30:41let's assume that the population of
30:42Bethlehem is less than 10,000 that's a
30:44safe assumption let's assume that the
30:46average population at any point in time
30:48over the last 2,000 years is something
30:50in the nature of a billion billion
30:51people so the probability of someone
30:53picked at random is roughly the ratio of
30:5610,000 to to 1 bill ion or and the way
30:59you can deal with round numbers the
31:01scientists and Engineers typically you
31:02just round them off in powers of 10 so
31:04you have 10 4th ID 10 to the 9th or
31:06putting it another way there's one
31:08chance in 10 uh to the 5ifth or uh one
31:12one chance in 100,000 of meeting someone
31:15born in Bethlehem how many have you ever
31:16met someone born in Bethlehem I see we
31:18got one two good for you do have you
31:20visited there you since then you've been
31:23that's unusual okay all I know is that
31:25you probably met more than 100,000
31:27people in that sample okay total total
31:30number let's take a second one this
31:34change the subject now but it's another
31:36famous prophecy in Zechariah
31:389:9 where the Prophet says Rejoice
31:40greatly oh Daughter of Zion shout oh
31:43daughter of Jerusalem Behold thy King
31:46cometh unto thee he is just and having
31:49salvation lowly riding upon an ass and
31:51upon a cult the full of an ass Zechariah
31:549:9 famous verse because Jesus
31:57deliberately
31:58fulfills this in the Triumph lent we'll
32:00be looking at that later but the point
32:03is how many people throughout history
32:06have presented themselves as a king to
32:09Jerusalem riding a
32:12donkey well I have no idea but if I said
32:14less than one in 100 am I being generous
32:17I think so okay so I'm going to use that
32:19as my plug figure I'm going to suggest
32:21to you someone presenting himself as a
32:22king riding a donkey there's less than
32:25one in a 100 all right now let's go to
32:28the third one there's another cute
32:30little phrase in Zechariah
32:3311 where God says through Zechariah said
32:35unto them if you think good give me my
32:37price and if not forbear so they weighed
32:39for my price 30 pieces of
32:43silver okay and obviously most of you
32:46are aware of the fact that's the precise
32:48value that Jesus was betrayed for
32:51question how many people throughout
32:53history have been betrayed for that
32:56precise figure 30 pieces of silver
32:57silver well I don't Happ to know any but
33:00if I say less than one in a thousand are
33:02we together if I look at all the ransom
33:05issues or places people have been
33:07betrayed and somehow lump them together
33:08I'm going to suggest there's less than
33:09one in a thousand that have that
33:12specific price are we together that make
33:14sense I'm being conservative I think
33:16okay the next verse adds some additional
33:19details I'm going treat it separately
33:21the Lord said un to me cast it to the
33:23Potter a goodly price that I was prized
33:26at of them I took the 30 pieces of
33:28silver and cast them to the Potter in
33:31the house of the Lord this strange
33:33little verse here and as you read that
33:35in the Old Testament might not come home
33:36when you get to the New Testament we
33:38refresh your memory of what happened
33:39after Judas betrayed Jesus then Jesus
33:42which betrayed him when he saw that he
33:44was condemned repented himself brought
33:47again the 30 pieces of silver to the
33:48chief priests and Elders saying I have
33:51sinned in that I have betrayed innocent
33:53blood that's a remarkable statement
33:55because we know that by then Satan had
33:57energy
33:59so by Satan's own words we declare J
34:01Jesus's innocence I think that's kind of
34:02a provocative thing but let's go on and
34:05the pr PR Chief priest said what's that
34:07to us you see to that in other words a
34:09Deal's a deal it's a done deal as far as
34:11they're
34:11concerned so he cast down the 30 pieces
34:14of silver in the temple departed and
34:16went out and hanged himself this is all
34:17out of Matthew
34:1827 so these these 30 pieces of silver
34:21where are they now they're laying on the
34:22temple floor
34:24right well the chief priests took the
34:26silver pieces and said it is not lawful
34:29to put them into the treasury because it
34:31is the price of blood there was a rule
34:32against that it was unlawful for the
34:34priests to put in the treasury blood
34:36money but you have to remember the chief
34:39priests had good CPAs
34:41okay and they took Council and and
34:44bought with them The Potter's field to
34:46bury strangers in in other words what's
34:47lurking behind this is they couldn't
34:49take the cash and put it in the treasury
34:51that was against the rules but what they
34:54could do they decided was to use the
34:57cash to prepay some
34:59expenses the temple was liable if some
35:01if a stranger died in the precincts they
35:03were liable to take care of the funeral
35:04and the arrangements that was a expense
35:06of the temple they had to find someplace
35:08to bury him well there happened to be a
35:10Potter's field that was a bargain deal
35:11right now so they took the cash bought
35:13the Potter's field so they had a field
35:15where they could bury strangers in
35:17they're prepaying anticipated
35:19expenses so they took councel brought
35:21with them The Potters field to bury
35:23strangers in wherefore that field was
35:25called the field of blood unto this day
35:28well let's go back to Zechariah
35:3011:13 notice the details that are in
35:32this little verse the price is 30 pieces
35:34of silver where does the transaction
35:37take place in the house of the Lord that
35:39is in the temple who ends up with the
35:43money the guy that owns the field the
35:46Potter that wild what's the probability
35:50that that just happened by chance that
35:52was random if I say less than one one in
35:54100 th I could say one in a million and
35:55pull it off let's say 100,000 let's be
35:57cautious okay okay let's take the next
36:00one this one has a lot of personal
36:02impact for me I'll explain why in a
36:03minute in Zechariah 13 Verse 6 there's a
36:06strange verse it says one shall say unto
36:08him what are these wounds in thine
36:10hands and then he shall answer those
36:12with which I was wounded in the house of
36:14my
36:15friends I can remember as a teenager
36:17coming across this verse and in those
36:18days I was on kind of a kick to collect
36:21prophecy verses so when I found a verse
36:24like this I would type it up on a little
36:25card the verse on one side and the
36:26reference on the other and i' add to my
36:27collection to try to learn it and I
36:29thought wow he's you know wounds in his
36:31hands and so forth that that's Prophecy
36:33of the Messiah so I added to my
36:35collection but as I tried to memorize it
36:36I kept stumbling it didn't make sense
36:38the more I looked at it the less sense
36:40it made and one will say unto him what
36:41are these wounds in thine hands and then
36:43he shall answer those with which I was
36:47wounded in the house of my
36:49friends well the more I thought about it
36:51I had to admit to myself that didn't fit
36:53the mental image I had I can't visualize
36:56Jesus laying out his hand
36:58on these 12 by 12s or whatever they were
37:00and them driving spikes into his hand
37:02the Romans div soldiers driving spikes
37:04into his hands as being wounded in the
37:06house of his friends that just somehow I
37:08had trouble with that until I was
37:10reading in John chapter 20 you may
37:14recall that first night after the meus
37:16road that evening he appeared to the
37:18disciples after his resurrection but
37:20Thomas wasn't with him all right the
37:23next day they saw Thomas said boy you
37:25should have been at the prayer meeting
37:26last night guess who showed up
37:28and Thomas expressed his famous doubt he
37:30he said unto them I except I shall see
37:32his hands in his hands the nail the
37:34print of his nails and put my finger
37:36into the print of the nails and thrust
37:38my hand into his side I will not believe
37:41see Thomas was from Missouri you know he
37:43as we would say in in our provincial uh
37:46format and uh well after eight days
37:48again the disciples were within and
37:50Thomas this time was with him then came
37:53Jesus the doors being shut and stood in
37:54the midst and said Peace be unto you
37:57then then he went over to Thomas he said
37:58Thomas reach hither thy finger and
38:01behold my hands and reach thither thy
38:03hand and thrust it in my side and be not
38:05faithless but
38:07believing that must have shook up Thomas
38:09to realize that Jesus heard every word
38:11he says he he he hears every word you
38:13and I say
38:14too Thomas answered and said unto him
38:16and I visualize Thomas falling on his
38:18knees when he says this doesn't say that
38:19that's just my
38:21interpretation Thomas answered and said
38:23to him my Lord and my
38:25God Jesus said to him Thomas
38:28because thou has seen me thou Hast
38:29believed blessed are they that have not
38:31seen and yet have
38:35believed then I suddenly realize that
38:37verse in Zechariah 13:6 what are these
38:40wounds in my hands then he shall answer
38:41those with which I was wounded in the
38:43house of my friends what wounded Jesus
38:46was not the
38:47nails it was Thomas's
38:50unbelief but let's get back to 136 how
38:52many people taken at random have been
38:54wounded in their hands in the house of
38:56their friends well if I see less than
38:58one in a thousand am I being generous I
39:01think so let's take the next one number
39:04six in we have to always pick at least
39:06one or a couple from Isaiah
39:1153 God says through Isaiah he was
39:13oppressed and he was afflicted yet he
39:15opened not his mouth he has brought as a
39:18lamb to the slaughter and a sheep before
39:20her Shear is is dumb so he open not his
39:22mouth and of course we're all can't help
39:25but remark when we see Jesus in those
39:27six trials that occurred that night
39:29three Jewish and three Roman trials he
39:31made no defense how many
39:34prisoners accused of a capital crime in
39:37other words death penalty make no
39:40defense even though they're
39:42innocent I suspect if you scan the
39:44records you could probably find
39:47somewhere someone who was innocent that
39:49went to an execution without making
39:51defense there probably have been maybe
39:54some but if I say there's less than one
39:55in a thousand are we together
39:58I think I'm being generous okay let's
40:01take another one from Isaiah a few
40:03verses later Isaiah says he made his
40:05grave with the wicked and with the rich
40:06in his death because he had done no
40:08violence neither was any deceit in his
40:09mouth strange apparent contradiction his
40:12grave is with the wicked and yet he's
40:14with the rich in his death so usually
40:17ask us how many people have died among
40:18the wicked yet were buried with the rich
40:20that were not
40:23attorneys and of course I'm being
40:25flipping
40:26here seriously how many people have died
40:28among the wicked and buried the rich
40:29again if I say less than one in a
40:31thousand am I being
40:32generous I think that the the intrinsic
40:36Paradox could be reflected in a higher
40:37number but let's go on let's take just
40:39one more and I'll reach we can't go
40:41through this without going to Psalm
40:42Psalm
40:4322 reads as if it was dictated first
40:46person singular as Jesus hung on the
40:48cross even though it was written 800
40:49years
40:50earlier but one of the phrases there
40:52we'll pick up on it says for the dogs
40:54have compassed me and the Assembly of
40:56the wicked have enclosed me
40:57they pierced my hands and my feet now
41:01what makes this remarkable this was
41:03penned by David 700 years before
41:06crucifixion was invented remember that
41:08in in Israel the form of capital
41:11punishment was
41:12stoning when they killed somebody for a
41:15crime or whatever they stoned them that
41:17was the official form of
41:19punishment but here we have in some 700
41:22years be crucifixion was invented by the
41:24Persians about 90 BC it was adopted
41:26heavily by the Roman of course and so on
41:29but it was invented by the uh by the
41:32Persians but here this was penned 700
41:35years before the fact and yet the whole
41:38Psalm graphically portrays in fact there
41:40have been articles in the American
41:42Medical Association journals taken from
41:44Psalm 22 and and analyzing the medical
41:47cause of death that's it's that detailed
41:51but let's get back to this how many
41:52people taken at random have died by
41:53having their hands and feet pierced a
41:55lot of people probably have but if I say
41:57less than one in 10,000 I think I'm
41:58being generous because there's so many
42:00people killed by so many other methods I
42:02think I'm being generous one in 10,000
42:04being killed by a crucifixion like
42:06method I think that's fair okay what
42:08I've done I've dragged you through eight
42:10of these born in
42:12Bethlehem riding a donkey presenting
42:14himself King on a donkey for 30 pieces
42:16of silver the transaction occures in the
42:18temple ends up with a Potter and all
42:20that there were wounds in the hands his
42:22no defense though innocent died with the
42:25wicked made his grave with the rich
42:28crucified okay we have these estimates
42:31obviously just loose estimates but we
42:32think cautious estimates the question
42:35now
42:36is what is the probability given let's
42:39assume for discussion purpos these
42:41probabilities are conservative in other
42:42words they're they're the events are
42:45actually even more rare than this but
42:46that's fine what's the probability that
42:49a particular person fulfilled all eight
42:51of
42:52these well to do this properly we have
42:56to have a feeling for what's called
42:57composite probabilities so indulge me a
42:59little bit further let's assume I have a
43:01room here of 100 people and let's assume
43:04that 60% of the people in this room are
43:07male and 40% of the people in this room
43:09are female okay let's assume there's 100
43:12of
43:12you what's the probability that if I was
43:15blindfolded and I somehow picked one of
43:17you at random that I pick a
43:20female well it's pretty obvious I have
43:22100 people I've got 40 females 60 males
43:25and if they're if they're uniformly
43:26mixed up and I touch one the probability
43:28is 40% that I got a female are you with
43:30me so far does that make sense okay now
43:34let me take a different
43:35characteristic let's assume that I have
43:37in this population 60% of you are
43:39right-handed and 40% of you are
43:42left-handed and let's also for the
43:44purpose of discussion let's assume that
43:45those attributes are uniformly
43:47distributed there isn't a tendency for
43:49men or women to be one of the other
43:51let's assume for the discussion that
43:52their un their attributes uniformally
43:54distributed so what's the probability if
43:56I blind folded touched one of you got
43:58somebody that was left-handed again it
44:00would be what 40% 40 of you are
44:03left-handed 60 of you are right-handed
44:05if you're mixed up uniformally I touch
44:07one of you there's a 40% chance okay and
44:09the reason I'm building this what I want
44:11to get to now is what's the probability
44:13of my touching somebody at random that's
44:17a left-handed female assuming I'm
44:19blindfolded and everybody's uniformly
44:21mixed up whatever well I take the one
44:23distribution which is 40% left-handers I
44:26take the other distribution which is 40%
44:28females and I put those two
44:30distributions together and what I get of
44:32course the probability of left-handed
44:34female is 04 40% time 40% which is 16%
44:3804 * 04 is16 in other words the way I
44:42get the composite estimate is to
44:45multiply the probability distributions
44:47that's all I'm trying to point out now
44:49those of you that are sophisticated
44:50Advanced statistics that you should
44:51apply Bas theorem which makes it just a
44:53little less little more rare I'm going
44:56to spare D you all that this will be
44:57good enough for our purposes trust
44:59me okay the the probability is
45:02technically even a little smaller but
45:03let's go
45:04on well now I have these eight
45:05prophecies born in Bethlehem king of
45:07donkey etc etc these eight prophecies
45:09since I've used powers of 10 it's easy
45:11to multiply them because all have to do
45:12is count the zeros this in effect the
45:15composite probability of these eight of
45:18one person fulfilling these eight
45:19prophecies is one chance in 10 to the
45:2328th 10 with 28 zeros after that's a
45:26pretty B number but if you're going to
45:28be precise you say by the way you should
45:30divide that by the total population
45:31during the last 2,000 years whatever and
45:34I'm going to say I'm just going to
45:35stipulate that let's just use 100
45:36billion as a horseback estimate okay so
45:40I divide the 1028 by 10 to the 11th and
45:43you just divide by subtracting exponents
45:45that's 10 to the
45:4617th now if I was in a statistics class
45:50here the way you try to get a feeling
45:52for say one chance in 100 we typically
45:54take a bucket and let's say we put 100
45:56silver Dollar in there I take one of the
45:59silver dollars and I mark it with
46:01someone's lipstick or or nail polish or
46:03something and put it in there and we mix
46:04it all
46:06up 99 unmarked ones one Mark we mix it
46:09all up the chance of my reaching in
46:11there and getting the one we marked is
46:12one chance in 100 that's a way of
46:14conveying what we mean by saying one in
46:17100 you with me well here I've got a
46:19situation where I've got 10 to the
46:2117th so what I need to do is get a
46:24bucket and put 10 the 17th silver in
46:27there that turns out to be pretty big
46:30bucket in fact I need a bucket that'll
46:33have 10 to 17 silver dollars and what I
46:35need is the state of
46:36Texas and I fill it with silver dollars
46:38it'll turn out to be two feet
46:40deep 10 to the 17th is a big
46:43number the chance of one person
46:46fulfilling those eight prophecies is
46:48equivalent to my marking one of those
46:51silver dollars in Texas 2 feet deep
46:53mixing them up in such a way that it
46:55could be anywhere reaching down
46:57blindfolded and picking up one and
46:58picking up the one that's marked is one
47:00chance in 10 the
47:0117 that
47:03obviously is pretty
47:07unlikely but I've only used eight
47:10prophecy I have 300 prophecies to choose
47:12from so bear with me one more
47:14time I have 300 to choose from I've only
47:18used eight so
47:20far I'm going to pick another
47:22eight now if I literally did that if I
47:25went through my list and picked another
47:26eight
47:27it would be hard for me to
47:30find any that are as likely as the ones
47:33I've used in other words the more I
47:34reach in the list the more technical
47:36they become the more spec specific they
47:39become therefore the more rare they are
47:42okay but for this discussion let's
47:44assume that the next eight are no less
47:47likely than the first eight I've used
47:50that's a fiction but it's against us so
47:52to speak you with me they actually would
47:53be more rare but that's okay so assuming
47:57there's no decrease in
47:59likelihoods I have 10 the 28th time 10
48:01the 28 that's 10 56 but I've got to
48:03divide by the population again 10 the 11
48:05so now I have 10 to the 45th that I need
48:07to deal
48:08with okay now I need a bucket that's
48:11going to carry 10 to the 45th 10 with 45
48:15zos after it that's a lot of silver
48:18dollars you want to know how many silver
48:20dollars that really is well it's 10 45th
48:21over dollars if I take the
48:24Earth and build a ball of silver dollars
48:28that's 30 times the distance from the
48:31Earth to the
48:32sun I will have 10 to the 45th silver
48:35dollars okay now what I need to do is
48:38take one of those silver
48:39dollars mark it with some
48:44whatever and get someone to volunteer in
48:46a space suit and go wander around this
48:49ball of silver dollars in such a way
48:51there's an equal likelihood that the
48:52silver dollar could be anywhere and he
48:54reaches in and picks one out the chance
48:56that he picked the one we Mark is one
48:57chance in 10 to the
48:5945th do that seem a little unlikely you
49:02bet
49:02you well let's do it one more time but
49:05instead of doubling just to save time
49:07let's triple it we went from 8 to 16
49:09let's take three * 16 48 we're going to
49:11take 48 prophecies we have over 300 to
49:14choose from so I haven't even scratched
49:15the surface here yet and again I'm going
49:18to indulge in this fiction that there's
49:20no decrease in
49:21likelihoods I'm later going to show you
49:23a couple of these that are so bizarre so
49:27precise they alone
49:31singular demonstrate the reality of
49:33Jesus Christ but let's just stay with
49:34this model I now have 10 28th multiplied
49:38by itself six times that turns out to be
49:4110 to 168th but I'm going to divide that
49:43by 10 the 11th the population so I have
49:4410 to
49:46157th now I got to build a model for you
49:48and I to
49:49imagine that's really big really
49:53big and silver dollars won't work
49:56because they're too big big in the first
49:57place so I've got to make a model
50:01consisting the units I'm going to use
50:02are the smallest thing I can conceive of
50:05what's the smallest thing you can
50:08imagine an atom okay good I'm going to
50:12make a
50:13ball of every atom in our
50:17galaxy turns out that's about 10 to the
50:2066 that's been
50:22estimated um I'm a long way from 10 to
50:2657th so I'm going to make such a ball of
50:29every adom in the universe I'm going to
50:31make such a ball for each atom in the
50:34universe so now I got 10 66 time 10 66
50:38that's 10 132nd I'm still a long way
50:40from my goal so I'm going to repeat this
50:43mental exercise once every second since
50:48the universe began and that's commonly
50:51accepted as 10 to the 17th
50:53seconds are you kidding no you take 10
50:55to 15 billion you take a 15 billion
50:58years run out the arithmetic and you'll
51:00find out that's roughly 10 to the 17th
51:02seconds so I'm going to make a ball of
51:05every ad the universe for each adom the
51:07universe I'm going to do that little
51:08exercise once every second
51:11for the entire history of the universe
51:14that brings me 10 to the
51:16149th I'm still a long way from trying
51:19to create a model for 107th I'm short by
51:23100 million times short
51:26I take an Adam and Mark it and of course
51:28you follow the logic and by the way in
51:32this little exercise we've only dealt
51:35with 48 out of 300
51:39prophecies documented in the Old
51:40Testament fulfilled in the
51:44new this is of course an excerpt from
51:46hour 13 of learned the Bible in 24 hours
51:49for those of you that uh have done that
51:51or going into it you'll recognize this
51:53being repeated in there and in going
51:56through this list by the way I have not
51:59touched on the most amazing ones the
52:02genealogy of Jesus Christ we'll take a
52:05look at that next time briefly it
52:07contains some surprises that I think
52:09most people who read their Bible haven't
52:11discovered yet we'll show you a few of
52:12those
52:12things and we'll also explore a specific
52:16prediction the angel Gabriel told Daniel
52:19five centuries in advance the exact day
52:23that their Messiah would ride that
52:24donkey into Jerusalem
52:26it's all in the Old Testament we'll look
52:28at that that one
52:29alone totally blows any attempt to
52:32mathematically predict its
52:35likelihood we'll touch a little bit on
52:36the midrashic prophecies before we
52:38through because you see this idea that
52:41prophecy is prediction and fulfillment
52:42prediction fulfillment that's that's a
52:44western
52:45model the Apostle Paul was from the
52:47school of gal who was taught by H and
52:50what they call the midrash that prophecy
52:52is pattern not just prediction and we
52:54begin to understand the Bible in terms
52:56of its patterns we get insights that are
52:58absolutely breathtaking that apply to us
53:00in our present day we'll talk about that
53:02before the series is over well what's
53:04our agenda we've gone through this here
53:05a little bit this first session has been
53:08an introduction we've talked about the
53:09nature of time the time itself is a
53:11physical property that only God himself
53:13can transcend and he alone knows the end
53:16from the beginning and he lays that out
53:17in writing to prove that he is God and
53:20that he cares we've also indulged in
53:23some speculations that have been
53:24borrowed heavily from the famous
53:26writings of Peter Stoner many years ago
53:28this little model of the probabilities
53:29of the prophecies it's not original it's
53:31something we've adapted from from some
53:33famous work that's been done but it
53:35gives us at least a grasp that the the
53:39um conjunction of these prophecies in a
53:42particular person go beyond any ability
53:45to attribute it to coincidence or chance
53:46or even
53:47contrivance so that's the first session
53:49we've completed now in our next session
53:51we're going to talk about prophecy past
53:53we'll look at other proofs of history
53:55and it'll be star to realize not only
53:58the Bible predicts the the things that
54:00have happened throughout history but the
54:02Precision by which it does is absolutely
54:04breathtaking and missed by many
54:06scholars in our third session we'll talk
54:09about the end time scenario prophecy
54:11future everybody talks about the end
54:12times we glibly throw words around the
54:15tribulation and the Antichrist and all
54:17that sort of thing what are we talking
54:19about we'll try to lay that out where do
54:20those ideas come from what does the
54:22bible really lay out and where are some
54:24of the controversies that surround this
54:26cu Obviously good Scholars have slightly
54:27different views of some of these things
54:29and then the last
54:30session after we've we we've seen the
54:33past we've seen the future the last
54:35session we'll talk about prophecy
54:37present what can we expect getting from
54:40here to the end times if if the end
54:42times are close what should we see in
54:44the alignment of Nations what shall we
54:46see in our culture what will we see in
54:48world events that will confirm or deny
54:50that where we are on God's
54:53timeline God has promised to Amos God
54:56will do nothing but that which he has
54:58revealed through his servants the
54:59prophets it's all there if we have the
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58:11[Applause]
58:13[Music]
58:34[Music]
58:41well I like to welcome you to session
58:43two of four that we call prophecy 101 or
58:47what is the world coming
58:49to in this session we're going to
58:51explore proofs from past history now our
58:56agenda the first session from last time
58:57you may recall we had a basic
58:59introduction what is the nature of time
59:02and how sure can we be that the Bible
59:04prophecy is really
59:06prophecy in this session we're going to
59:08explore some other examples of
59:10prophecies that have been fulfilled some
59:13of them may be quite familiar to you
59:14some of you some of them may be quite a
59:17surprise and then this will be followed
59:19next time by a review of What's called
59:21the end time scenario what does the
59:24Bible talk about
59:26uh as climaxing God's plan for
59:29mankind and then the fourth session will
59:31be what do we do between here what can
59:34we expect from uh where we are today and
59:37the end times are we moving into the end
59:39times if so how can you tell what would
59:41be going on but today we're going to
59:43just
59:43explore proofs from past history now
59:47we're going to indulge in some graphics
59:50and uh when we use Old Testament
59:52references I'm going to use a sort of a
59:54scroll format to to to make you
59:56conscious the fact we're drawing from
59:58the Old Testament when we do from the
59:59New Testament I'm going to use sort of a
1:00:01parchment Motif in the graphics because
1:00:04we'll be popping back and forth but to
1:00:05help you realize what's Old Testament
1:00:06what's New Testament we thought that
1:00:08might be
1:00:10helpful but one of the fundamental
1:00:12questions that we touched on last time
1:00:13that we want to talk a little further
1:00:14about is what makes Jesus Christ
1:00:17unique there are many many highly
1:00:21venerated religious people throughout
1:00:23history and what makes Jesus Christ
1:00:26unique well probably the most profound
1:00:29issue is that every detail of his life
1:00:32was written down in advance before the
1:00:34fact his entire life was a fulfillment
1:00:36of
1:00:37Prophecy in fact we discover that in the
1:00:40Bible these 66 books penned by 40
1:00:42different guys over thousands of years
1:00:44we discover that every detail in the
1:00:47Bible is there by deliberate design and
1:00:50relates to Jesus Christ that's my
1:00:53challenge to you as you study the word
1:00:56in fact the scripture does say the
1:00:57testimony of Jesus is the spirit of
1:01:00Prophecy now as we look at one of the
1:01:03things we'll need to do as we get into
1:01:05this is to have a basic perspective of
1:01:07history and the bible really
1:01:10Embraces what generally is regarded as
1:01:12about 6,000 years of human history
1:01:14starting from the creation the fall of
1:01:16Man and of course the key fact
1:01:19throughout the entire Panorama is of
1:01:21course the person of Jesus Christ in the
1:01:24cross now now this whole Cosmic drama
1:01:28that we're engaged in of course started
1:01:30with the rebellion and the fall of Man
1:01:32and all of us know the story in Genesis
1:01:35but we should realize that in Genesis
1:01:363:15 we have a declaration of war by God
1:01:40himself against uh this rebellion and uh
1:01:44it's it and it speaks of two seeds the
1:01:47seed of the woman and the seed of The
1:01:50Serpent and uh in Genesis 3:15 very key
1:01:55Passage
1:01:57God saysi will put enmity between thee
1:01:59speaking to the serpent I'll put enmity
1:02:01between thee and the woman and between
1:02:04thy seed and her seed and it shall
1:02:06bruise thy head and thou sht bruise his
1:02:08heel a very often quoted verse because
1:02:11it introduces this strange phrase the
1:02:14seed of the woman that's a contradiction
1:02:16in grammar let alone biology the seed is
1:02:18the man already in the grammar here in
1:02:21Genesis 3 we have the hint of the Virgin
1:02:24birth but what many people Overlook is
1:02:26there's another seed alluded to in the
1:02:28same verse and that's the seed of The
1:02:31Serpent and that's a phrase that will be
1:02:34personified in a world leader yet on the
1:02:36horizon distant Horizon and we're going
1:02:38to talk quite a bit about him especially
1:02:40next
1:02:41time but this starts a chain of promises
1:02:46prophecies the seat of the woman in
1:02:47Genesis 3:15 identifies that God is
1:02:49going to redeem the entire creation not
1:02:52just you and I but the entire creation
1:02:54through the human race
1:02:56when we get to Genesis 22 he calls
1:02:58Abraham out of whom he's going to make
1:03:00many nations but one specific one namely
1:03:03Israel and that's confirmed to
1:03:05Jacob and uh finally David the family
1:03:09and so forth you can we could build a
1:03:10whole chain of these prophecies interest
1:03:12of time we won't try to do that here but
1:03:14be sensitive that everything that we're
1:03:16going to talk about links to those chain
1:03:18of
1:03:19promises when we get to the House of
1:03:21David we get to Isaiah makes a very very
1:03:24interesting
1:03:26pronouncement God says through Isaiah
1:03:28says therefore the Lord himself shall
1:03:30give you a sign behold the not a virgin
1:03:34the Virgin shall conceive and bear a son
1:03:36and shall call his name Emanuel this is
1:03:39a ver now some people quibble with the
1:03:40Hebrew there when that was translated
1:03:42into Greek three centuries before Christ
1:03:44was born the Greek being very precise
1:03:45and very unambiguous clearly is talking
1:03:47about a virgin the Virgin birth hinted
1:03:50at in Genesis 3 in the Garden of Eden
1:03:53reconfirmed by the prophet Isaiah now as
1:03:56we look at the biblical Panorama of
1:03:58history after the uh obviously we have
1:04:01the fall of Man you get to Genesis 6 you
1:04:02have the flood and after that the call
1:04:04of Abraham and finally The Exodus when
1:04:06you get to the Exodus you you realize
1:04:09that almost half of human history is
1:04:11covered by one book of the Bible Book of
1:04:13Genesis and then after that of course
1:04:15after The Exodus we have birthed the
1:04:17nation Israel and uh obviously finally
1:04:20get to the House of David and ultimately
1:04:22the nation goes into Exile and all
1:04:25that's covered in the the rest of the
1:04:26Old Testament so so far in this history
1:04:28what we've talked about on this timeline
1:04:30is from is from the creation uh through
1:04:33the Exile and that's the Old Testament
1:04:35now we're going to focus a little bit on
1:04:38the
1:04:39monarchy after David before the nation
1:04:42goes into exile to pick up some
1:04:44interesting insights now Samuel closed
1:04:48the era of the judges and ushers in the
1:04:50monarchy first king was Saul then David
1:04:53then Solomon and then after after
1:04:55Solomon dies there's a Civil War and the
1:04:58nation splits into two the northern
1:05:00kingdom called the house of Israel the
1:05:02southern Kingdom called the house of
1:05:04Judah and uh the book of Samuel first
1:05:08second Samuel 1 Second Kings covers that
1:05:11history and Chronicles is a recount of
1:05:14that history especially from the point
1:05:16of view of the Southern
1:05:17Kingdom but as we get look at the
1:05:20northern kingdom that's also the era of
1:05:22Elijah and Elisha these incredible
1:05:24prophets trying to counsel them to stop
1:05:29worshiping false gods they refuse the
1:05:32northern kingdom goes from bad to worse
1:05:34and ultimately as Hosea and others
1:05:37prophesy gets wiped out by their enemies
1:05:40the Assyrians the Assyrian uh uh
1:05:44Conquest the southern
1:05:46Kingdom doesn't do much better there's
1:05:49occasionally a good King but in General
1:05:51Southern Kingdom also goes from bad to
1:05:52worse and It ultimately will go into the
1:05:55Babylon Ian Exile a very key milestone
1:05:58in Israel's history but we're going to
1:06:00focus a little bit on one of the
1:06:02incidents as these Kings go from bad to
1:06:05worse we finally get to a King by the
1:06:07name of
1:06:08jeanah and we get to in Jeremiah
1:06:1222:30 God by the time we get to jeanah
1:06:15is so
1:06:16upset he pronounces a blood curse on the
1:06:19line of
1:06:21Janiah in Jeremiah 22:30 God says thus
1:06:24sayith the Lord write this man
1:06:27childless a man that shall not prosper
1:06:29in his days for no man of his seed shall
1:06:33prosper sitting upon the throne of David
1:06:35and ruling anymore in
1:06:37Judah now on the one hand we look at
1:06:39that and recognize that God's pretty
1:06:42upset but as we realize what God's
1:06:45saying here if we've done our homework
1:06:46we should be
1:06:48startled because this has been preceded
1:06:50by all kinds of promises that the
1:06:54Messiah would come from the line of
1:06:56Abraham from Jacob from the tribe of
1:06:59Judah and from the House of David you
1:07:02can you can follow all those promises
1:07:05when you get to this Blood
1:07:07curse the way I always imagine it in my
1:07:09own mind I always visualize it when God
1:07:11declared this Blood curse on jeanah I
1:07:14always visualize celebration going on in
1:07:16the councils of Satan the whole Bible
1:07:20from Genesis to Revelation can be viewed
1:07:22as as a an attempt by Satan to thwart
1:07:25the plan of God you can actually go
1:07:28through all the specific events that all
1:07:32the conflicts the flood of Noah all
1:07:33these events as really responses to
1:07:36Satan trying to thwart the plan of God
1:07:37well when you get to this Blood curse in
1:07:39Janiah I always visualize Satan
1:07:41celebrating because certainly he must
1:07:44have felt that he now had got over a
1:07:46barrel because God has committed himself
1:07:49to produce a messiah from the Royal line
1:07:52of David but now there is a blood curse
1:07:56pronounced on the Royal Line on his
1:07:59descendants and
1:08:01following and no man of his seed shall
1:08:04prosper is the Messiah going to be of
1:08:06his seed well as I imagine
1:08:09Satan celebrating this apparent Paradox
1:08:13that God has got himself into I always
1:08:15visualize the father turning to the
1:08:16angels saying watch this one
1:08:20okay when we get to the New Testament we
1:08:22notice something very strange in the
1:08:24genealogies
1:08:25Matthew of course which opens the New
1:08:27Testament and being a Jew presents the
1:08:29genealogy of the Messiah from a very
1:08:32Jewish perspective he naturally starts
1:08:34with Abraham Isaac Jacob Judah and he
1:08:37goes right down through the line to
1:08:39David Luke's when you get to the Gospel
1:08:42of Luke Luke's a different kind of guy
1:08:44Gentile and an MD a doctor so his Focus
1:08:49isn't the Jewish perspective in fact his
1:08:51focus is to present the Messiah as the
1:08:53son of man and as such he naturally
1:08:56starts with the first man his genealogy
1:08:59in effect starts with Adam Adam Seth
1:09:02enosh Kenan mahalalel and so on down to
1:09:04Noah then he continues to Shem arax and
1:09:07so forth he gets down to Tara the father
1:09:09of Abraham and when so when Luke gets to
1:09:12Abraham from Abraham to David naturally
1:09:14they're both identical Luke has just
1:09:16started earlier so to speak we together
1:09:18so
1:09:20far well when you get to David something
1:09:22strange happens Matthew
1:09:26being a
1:09:27Jew goes through after David he goes
1:09:30through the first surviving son of baath
1:09:33Sheba Solomon Solomon rabom and goes
1:09:37right on through the kings of of Judah
1:09:40ultimately to Joakim who has that blood
1:09:43curse on his on his line right after
1:09:46Jahin it goes right on down to the to
1:09:50Joseph who is the legal
1:09:52father of
1:09:54Jesus so Jesus is heir to the Royal line
1:09:59but not by Blood by legal relationship
1:10:02because of his father Joseph when you
1:10:04look at Luke when Luke goes from David
1:10:07Luke does a left turn he does a
1:10:09different goes a different way he goes
1:10:11through the second surviving son of
1:10:13baath Sheba not Solomon but a son by the
1:10:15name of Nathan don't confuse him with
1:10:16Nathan the prophet but Nathan was one of
1:10:18the sons of of David also and he goes
1:10:21down through his line down through heli
1:10:24who is the father of
1:10:26Mary so we have here a double genealogy
1:10:30one that goes the legal line goes to
1:10:33Joseph the bloodline if I can call it
1:10:35that goes down through Mary many it's
1:10:38amazing to me how many Bible helps you
1:10:40can pick up who don't aren't sensitive
1:10:41to this but there's another thing I'd
1:10:43like to point out because I'm trying to
1:10:45increase your sensitivity to the
1:10:47subtleties in the scripture when you
1:10:49read the Torah the Books of Moses you
1:10:51discover there's a strange event that
1:10:53occurs with a guy by the name of zahad
1:10:56zahad has five daughters no sons and so
1:11:00he they zead the daughters they ask for
1:11:03an exception to inheritance normally The
1:11:05Inheritance in Israel went through the
1:11:06mail but they asked for an exception
1:11:10requested of Moses Moses goes to the
1:11:11Lord and the Lord says make that such an
1:11:13exception in numbers 27 you'll find 11
1:11:15verses deal with it there that if there
1:11:18are no
1:11:19Sons then inheritance can go through the
1:11:22daughter if she marries within the
1:11:24tribe so it's a special exception for
1:11:26the daughters of zahad well that was the
1:11:28request they made of Moses Moses asked
1:11:30the Lord he puts it in the books of
1:11:32Moses when you get to the days of Joshua
1:11:34these five daughters when they're
1:11:35dividing up the land after the conquest
1:11:37they go to Joshua and say hey we got a
1:11:39deal check the footnotes and in Joshua
1:11:4217 he checks and indeed that was spe
1:11:44specified so they're allowed to inherit
1:11:47property if even though there were no no
1:11:49Sons under zahad now what most people
1:11:52don't understand unless you've done your
1:11:54homework is is when that occurred when
1:11:56the daughter married within the
1:11:59tribe the Father of the Bride adopted
1:12:02her husband as a
1:12:05son and that occurs in Ezra 2 Nehemiah 7
1:12:08numbers 32 number of places that are
1:12:10your will be in the
1:12:12notes what most people don't even if you
1:12:15read a commentary on this they generally
1:12:17just treat this as some kind of quaint
1:12:19procedure in ancient Israel once you
1:12:21remember that every detail there is
1:12:23there by Design
1:12:25and in some way as prophetic of Jesus
1:12:27Christ I believe it was CI scoffield in
1:12:30some of his papers was the first to
1:12:32notice that the claims of Christ hang on
1:12:34this
1:12:34exception and uh because see Joseph was
1:12:37the son-in-law of heli if you look at
1:12:38Luke 3:23 in the Greek the the word
1:12:41there is Nito he's re he's a son as
1:12:44reckoned by law of heli he's a son in
1:12:47law of heli so again we have this
1:12:51interesting as you go through the
1:12:53scripture whenever you find a
1:12:54technicality
1:12:57Rejoice because behind that technicality
1:13:00or this apparent contradiction or
1:13:02Paradox will lie a discovery and uh so
1:13:05we're dealing Here with Jesus Christ who
1:13:07is pre-existent we noticed that when we
1:13:09last week when we talked about um Micah
1:13:1152 Bethlehem though eph though th be
1:13:14little among the thousands of Judah yet
1:13:15out of thee shall he come forth that is
1:13:17to be ruler in Israel whose goings forth
1:13:19have been from eternity past from
1:13:22Everlasting John opens his gospel that
1:13:24way in the beginning was the the word
1:13:25the word was with God the Word was God
1:13:27the same was in the beginning with God
1:13:29all things were made by him and without
1:13:31him was not anything made that was made
1:13:33who is John talking about John is using
1:13:36the word of God as a title of Jesus
1:13:39Christ he was the creator this Creator
1:13:43became man and dwelt Among Us in fact in
1:13:46verse 14 he says the word was made flesh
1:13:47and tabernacled among us and we beheld
1:13:50his glory the glory is ever the only
1:13:51begotten of the father full of grace and
1:13:53truth
1:13:55and what we're going to focus on in this
1:13:57study is the big climax in Revelation 19
1:14:00where John ultimately after all the
1:14:02seals and trumpets and bowls he finally
1:14:04says I saw heaven open and behold a
1:14:06white horse and he that sat upon him was
1:14:08called faithful and true and in
1:14:10righteousness he doth judge and make war
1:14:12and he was clothed with a vesture dipped
1:14:14in Blood and his name is called the word
1:14:18of God none other than Jesus Christ of
1:14:21course that'll be the climax that we'll
1:14:22work up to in this series well as we
1:14:24look look at this biblical Panorama of
1:14:26History we've been looking the Exile
1:14:29bear in mind the we're now at the point
1:14:31where the whole Testament is uh
1:14:33completed then there's 400 years they
1:14:36call the silent years you see the Old
1:14:38Testament was written over a period of
1:14:39almost 2,000 years the New Testament was
1:14:42written within one lifetime in fact
1:14:44there's now evidence that some of those
1:14:45records were contemporaneous with the
1:14:47apostles and uh so it's a quite a
1:14:51different thing of course the key to all
1:14:52of this is Person of Jesus Christ in the
1:14:54cross we're going to talk quite a bit
1:14:56about that as we go and that was
1:14:57followed by the diaspora where the Jews
1:14:59were scattered throughout the world and
1:15:01the Bible in the Old and New Testament
1:15:03focus on when the nation will be
1:15:05restored reather for the big Climax and
1:15:09we'll be talking a lot about that as we
1:15:11go one of the things if you're going to
1:15:13study prophecy you will encounter sooner
1:15:15or later is this whole idea that history
1:15:17Biblical history is divided into certain
1:15:20periods typically called
1:15:22dispensations and uh they usually speak
1:15:25of the Age of Innocence from in Genesis
1:15:271 the age of conscience after Genesis 3
1:15:30after human government Genesis 8 the
1:15:34time of Promise in Genesis 12 when God
1:15:36calls Abraham the giving of the law at
1:15:38Mount
1:15:39siani and then a period called The
1:15:42Church age some people call it the age
1:15:44of Grace but that's fallen in disfavor
1:15:46because each age is characterized by
1:15:48Grace so it's an unfortunate label so
1:15:50most it's probably if you're going to
1:15:51deal with these terms the church age is
1:15:53probably a little more descriptive
1:15:55followed of course by a kingdom age this
1:15:57is the this is a classical profile of
1:16:00what some people call dispensations
1:16:02putting it on our timeline the age of
1:16:05innocence of course covers the Eden up
1:16:08until man's fall the age of conscience
1:16:10from the man's fall up until the flood
1:16:12of Noah the era of human government from
1:16:15Noah through the Tower of Babel and so
1:16:17forth then we have the age of promise
1:16:20when God called Abraham and gives him
1:16:21the promise followed by the the giving
1:16:23of the law and we carry that up into the
1:16:26period of the New Testament period where
1:16:27we have the church followed of course by
1:16:31the Lord coming returning and setting up
1:16:33his own kingdom now this is a classical
1:16:36View and I'm indebted uh to Paul vanoi
1:16:40who has suggested a slight variation
1:16:41which I think he's right on and that is
1:16:44to take the promise and the law and put
1:16:45it together because they really
1:16:46represent the calling of the nation
1:16:48giving its promise and the law to it and
1:16:51that there is a period that everyone
1:16:52overlooks as a dispensation called the
1:16:54tribulation
1:16:55no one doubts that but it's it's got
1:16:57some very peculiar rules so this what
1:16:58makes this attractive in some respects
1:17:01is that makes the kingdom age the
1:17:02seventh of the series and it seems to
1:17:05fit for lots of reasons but something
1:17:07probably also very operative for all of
1:17:09us we're going to talk about there's
1:17:11also a period called the times of the
1:17:13Gentiles Jes Jesus even makes reference
1:17:16to this that uh there are a number of
1:17:18things that will happen until the times
1:17:20of the Gentiles be fulfilled this is a
1:17:22phrase We want to be sensitive to it
1:17:24starts
1:17:25with
1:17:26Nebuchadnezzar when Babylon Rises to
1:17:28power and takes the Jews captive that's
1:17:30a major milestone in Israel's history
1:17:33and it be it starts a period of time
1:17:35that is still continuing in which the
1:17:37planet Earth is dominated by the Gentile
1:17:40Nations but there's a period of time
1:17:42coming when it will end and Jesus makes
1:17:45reference to that so the times of the
1:17:47Gentiles is a phrase We want to be
1:17:48sensitive to there's another phrase that
1:17:51people confuse with that called the
1:17:53fullness of the Gentiles that's a term
1:17:55used of the church Paul uses that of the
1:17:57church in Romans 11:25 so be sensitive
1:18:00to both of those but what we're going to
1:18:03start our focus on some specific
1:18:06prophecies with those prophecies that
1:18:08are not only dramatic in their
1:18:09fulfillment but also will contribute to
1:18:11our understanding of the total
1:18:12perspective and one of the big events
1:18:15was a dream held by a a young General
1:18:19whose father died and he inherited the
1:18:22the The Throne of Babylon
1:18:25uh Nebuchadnezzar was the General uh uh
1:18:29under his father naop palazer and they
1:18:32were just for many years just a pawn of
1:18:34Assyrian politics but they rise to power
1:18:37and the father had a very sharp son as a
1:18:39general by the name of Nebuchadnezzar
1:18:41and a big and he's increasingly being
1:18:43successful until he finally defeats Fon
1:18:45Neco at the Battle of kimesh which means
1:18:47that they babyon now is the dominant
1:18:49power in the region and on the way home
1:18:53he um uh lay Siege to Jerusalem but
1:18:57during The Siege discovers that his
1:18:58father has died he's now the king of
1:19:00Babylon so here's a young General
1:19:02inheriting the Throne of this new Empire
1:19:05uh and uh he sets up a vassel king in in
1:19:09Jerusalem takes some hostages and Daniel
1:19:11and his three friends were among those
1:19:13they probably of the royal line by the
1:19:14way and they were taken as hostages to G
1:19:17guarantee the Loyalty of the vassel king
1:19:20as Nebuchadnezzar goes back home to take
1:19:22over the throne now as he goes back home
1:19:25to take over the throne he of course
1:19:27inherits the staff groups of his father
1:19:30these old cronies that he would like to
1:19:33know if they can cut the mustard well it
1:19:35turns out Nebuchadnezzar has a very
1:19:38troubling dream one night and so he
1:19:41calls his he's so troubled by it he
1:19:43calls his advisers in and in instead of
1:19:46just telling them to dream to get an
1:19:47interpretation he decides to put them to
1:19:50the test if they really have some kind
1:19:53of special gift they should be able to
1:19:55tell him what the dream was as well as
1:19:57what it means and of course they they
1:19:59become unglued when you get you got you
1:20:02tell us what the dream is we'll
1:20:03interpret it for you we got our library
1:20:04of Sigman Freud back there we can take a
1:20:06look at and read and give you some
1:20:08ideas he says you guys are just stalling
1:20:10for time so he puts out the word to have
1:20:12them all um executed all the people in
1:20:15that job description all these seers and
1:20:17astrologers and what have you well
1:20:19Daniel is in that job description when
1:20:21he gets the word that the words come
1:20:22down he tells the supervisor hey wait
1:20:24wait a minute give us a crack at
1:20:26this and so uh he petitions and uh King
1:20:31and uh Daniel's three friends have a
1:20:33prayer meeting and uh they they Daniel
1:20:36goes there it's one of those great
1:20:38chapters it's so frustrating to do such
1:20:39a summary on a evening like this I like
1:20:41to spend the hour on just the drama of
1:20:43the events of just this
1:20:45chapter because Daniel really
1:20:47grandstands this all these advisers that
1:20:49couldn't cut the mustard are in the back
1:20:51of the room but he goes to the king and
1:20:53say he says I can't tell you what it is
1:20:54either but there's a God in heaven that
1:20:55can and then he goes on to tell the king
1:20:58what his dream was and obviously the
1:21:00king's impressed because he has it right
1:21:02on the button the King's dream is a
1:21:05pretty weird dream but it's very
1:21:07important to each one of us so let's
1:21:08take a look at it what the what what
1:21:11Daniel explains to the king what you saw
1:21:13in your dream was a metal image made
1:21:17with four different kinds of
1:21:19metals the head of this image was
1:21:22gold the chest and arms were of
1:21:25silver the belly and thighs were of
1:21:28brass and the legs were iron in fact the
1:21:31feet were iron mixed with
1:21:33Clay now many people think GE that's
1:21:36five different materials it's not really
1:21:37it's really four with an impurity at the
1:21:39end and we'll see that confirmed in some
1:21:42other Visions I'll come back
1:21:43to and then as Nebuchadnezzar dreamed
1:21:47this metal image a stone cut without
1:21:50hands strikes the image at the feet and
1:21:54this Stone grows to become a mountain
1:21:57that eventually fills the entire
1:22:00world pretty weird
1:22:03dream it's no wonder that Nebuchadnezzar
1:22:05was troubled and he somehow knew that
1:22:07this was just not a dream it was
1:22:09important Daniel goes on to this is not
1:22:12a question of conjecture Daniel in
1:22:14Chapter 2 Then goes on to interpret the
1:22:17dream for him he says and incidentally
1:22:22he doesn't use these terms that is what
1:22:23you and I would call a timeline
1:22:27you are this head of gold Daniel says in
1:22:29other words the B you the king and and
1:22:31the Babylonian Empire is represented by
1:22:33the head of gold but you're going to be
1:22:35succeeded by another namely the Persians
1:22:38and they in turn will be succeeded by
1:22:39another the Greeks and they in turn will
1:22:43be succeeded by another and we'll
1:22:45discover as we get into this that this
1:22:47is Roman two phases Rome I'll call Rome
1:22:50phase one and Rome phase two and most
1:22:52Scholars studying the passages and those
1:22:54passages that relate to this there's an
1:22:56amazing consistency in
1:22:58presentation well the Babylonian empire
1:23:01under Nebuchadnezzar succeeds from about
1:23:03606 BC to 539 BC it's interesting that
1:23:09NE uh napasar of course dies
1:23:11Nebuchadnezzar was his his son there are
1:23:13several other guys that rule just for a
1:23:15matter of months but ultimately get
1:23:17taken over by nabonidus and it's the
1:23:19days of nabonidus and his son belshazzar
1:23:22that we want to focus on in Daniel
1:23:25chapter 5 Daniel describes the fall of
1:23:29Babylon it's important for us to
1:23:32understand this from a historical point
1:23:33of view and also it's going to be very
1:23:35important because it's going to have
1:23:36implications as we get into the end time
1:23:38prophecy to understand what happened
1:23:40here now Nebuchadnezzar's grandson in
1:23:42effect is
1:23:44belshazzar the Persians have risen to
1:23:46power to the East and they're a threat
1:23:50but Babylon is viewed by everyone as as
1:23:54being
1:23:55impregnable it had it had uh uh walls
1:23:59about 15 mil on a side and they could
1:24:02have chariot races for a breast on top
1:24:04of the walls this was a considered a
1:24:06very it was double wall between the
1:24:09walls there was a moat and the Euphrates
1:24:12River fed the entire Enterprise from the
1:24:16uh Northeast down through the Southwest
1:24:18almost diagonally through diagonally
1:24:20through the city and uh
1:24:24the the water not only preserved the the
1:24:28uh City in case of a Siege but also fed
1:24:30the moat and so belshazzar in his
1:24:33arrogance and his overconfidence instead
1:24:35of preparing to to to meet the Persians
1:24:38when they come threw a party for a
1:24:41thousand of his Nobles and the Persian
1:24:44army is on the near Horizon but they
1:24:45virtually ignore it and during the
1:24:47middle of this
1:24:49party the fingers of a man's hand show
1:24:52up on the wall by the way that room has
1:24:54been
1:24:55rebuilt uh Saddam Hussein has had that
1:24:57room verified by archaeologists and
1:24:59rebuilt so that room he uses it for
1:25:01heads of state for Affairs of State even
1:25:04in recent
1:25:05years but as they have this as
1:25:08belshazzar has his party the fingers of
1:25:10a man's hand start writing on the wall
1:25:13and uh it shakes them all up of course
1:25:16and what and there's a whole story about
1:25:18how they couldn't couldn't interpret it
1:25:20they called Daniel out of retirement to
1:25:22come and interpret which he does and
1:25:24basically uh he the the interpretation
1:25:28of the writing on the wall indicates
1:25:29that their number is up that they've
1:25:31been weighed and found wanting and that
1:25:33the Empire is falling into the hands of
1:25:35the Persians and I won't go into the
1:25:37encryption aspects there's plenty of
1:25:38documents on that in our articles and we
1:25:40want to keep moving here but the point
1:25:42is while they're throwing that party
1:25:45what's going on outside as recorded by
1:25:47Herodotus and other historians is
1:25:50Cyrus's General took one of his
1:25:53divisions up River and diverted the
1:25:55Euphrates into another Canal system and
1:25:58a pre-appointment time as that water
1:26:00drops the Persian army slips in under
1:26:02the gates takes over the city without a
1:26:04battle that's going to be very important
1:26:06for us to understand for some other
1:26:09reasons cus the great he's an
1:26:11interesting guy he's the one that
1:26:13established the MEO Persian Empire he
1:26:14was part me and part Persian his father
1:26:17um was king of was an elite and his
1:26:21mother was median so he was actually uh
1:26:24half and half if you will but he unites
1:26:27the mes and the Persians into an Empire
1:26:28that lasts for two centuries he
1:26:31apparently had incredible organizational
1:26:32skills but one of the first things he
1:26:34did as he Ro Rose to power was to attack
1:26:37his father-in-law who was a very corrupt
1:26:38guy and he captured his Capital without
1:26:41a battle and he welded these amids and
1:26:44Persians into a unified Nation as I say
1:26:46that continued for two centuries now on
1:26:49October 12th 539 BC Cyrus's General as I
1:26:53indicated has captured Babylon without a
1:26:55battle because the Persians hadt
1:26:58diverted the Euphrates into the canal up
1:27:00River and uh your herodes describes how
1:27:03the water level dropped to uh the middle
1:27:06of a man's thighs the way he phrases it
1:27:08that rendered the flood defenseless and
1:27:11U uh the the the flood defense is
1:27:13useless and Ena the Invaders to March
1:27:15through the river um by Night the reason
1:27:18I'm going into this there is well when
1:27:21Cyrus enters the town 12 days later he
1:27:23makes his formal entry after his General
1:27:25conquered the place as he enters the
1:27:28town Daniel shows up to greet him and
1:27:32reads him a letter that was written 150
1:27:36years
1:27:38earlier and um this is recorded by
1:27:40Josephus in his book Antiquities and
1:27:43what's interesting about this letter you
1:27:44find it in the book of Isaiah in which
1:27:46God calls Cyrus by
1:27:49name uh even though Isaiah died 150
1:27:52years before cus is born in Isaiah
1:27:56starting near the end of chapter 44 it
1:27:58reads as follows speaking of God is that
1:28:01saith to the Deep be dry and I will dry
1:28:04up thy rivers that saith of Cyrus he is
1:28:07my shepherd He Shall perform all my
1:28:09pleasure even saying to Jerusalem Thou
1:28:11shalt be built and to the temple thy
1:28:13Foundation shall be laid thus sayith the
1:28:16Lord to his anointed to that's a strange
1:28:19phrase to find in in the Hebrew Bible
1:28:22that a gentile King is called God's
1:28:23anoint anointed very unusual
1:28:25phrase he says whose right hand I've
1:28:27hold and to subdue Nations before him
1:28:29and I will loose the loins of Kings to
1:28:31open before him the two leave Gates and
1:28:33the gates shall not be shut and I will
1:28:35go before thee and make the Crooked
1:28:37places straight I will break in pieces
1:28:39the gates of brass and cut in under the
1:28:41bars of iron and I will give Thee the
1:28:43treasures of darkness and the hidden
1:28:44Riches of secret places that thou May
1:28:46knowest that I the Lord which called
1:28:49thee by thy name am the god of Israel
1:28:54for Jacob my servant sake and Israel my
1:28:56elect I have even called thee by thy
1:28:58name I have surnamed thee though thou
1:29:00Hast not known me I am the lord and
1:29:03there is none else there is no God
1:29:05beside me I GED thee though thou Hast
1:29:07not known me and of course it goes on
1:29:09can you imagine being a conqueror you've
1:29:13conquered Babylon and within Babylon you
1:29:16have these Jewish
1:29:17slaves and you discover that among these
1:29:20Jewish slaves there's an ancient Prophet
1:29:22that God through whom God has written
1:29:24you a letter Calling You by name and
1:29:26outlining your career how you succeeded
1:29:30and God's saying I'm doing this because
1:29:31you're going to be the one that's going
1:29:33to release my people to go back to
1:29:36Jerusalem how would you react to that if
1:29:38that was you you'd be
1:29:40impressed and Cyrus was uh he was
1:29:43obviously duly impressed so what does he
1:29:46do he frees the captives he even gave
1:29:49them incentives he gave them money if
1:29:51they would go back he even made
1:29:53donations to rebuild the Temple out of
1:29:56the whole crowd only about 50,000 accept
1:29:59the deal and go back to under Ezra to
1:30:02rebuild the
1:30:05Temple but interesting in Ezra chapter 1
1:30:08we have the proclamation of syus the
1:30:10King of Persia the Lord God Of Heaven
1:30:12hath given me all the kingdoms of the
1:30:14earth he hath charged me to build him a
1:30:15house at Jerusalem which is in Judah who
1:30:19is there among you of all his people his
1:30:21God be with him and let him go up to
1:30:22Jerusalem which is in Judah and build
1:30:24the house of the Lord God of Israel he
1:30:26is the god which is in Jerusalem this is
1:30:29Cyrus
1:30:30talking now it's interesting as you go
1:30:32through history whenever there's a
1:30:33situation like this it's only a Remnant
1:30:35that really go back out of the whole
1:30:37nation Israel less than 50,000 take
1:30:40advantage of this and go home to rebuild
1:30:42their Temple under Ezra they have a
1:30:44tough time they don't get very far until
1:30:48Nehemiah gets in the ACT some 19 years
1:30:50later I'll come back to that but one of
1:30:52the things you want to do if you're in
1:30:54London is to go to the British Museum
1:30:57and there you will find what's called
1:30:59the steel or the cylinder of of Cyrus
1:31:02and the translation of the uniform
1:31:04writing is says without any battle he
1:31:05entered the town sparing any Calamity I
1:31:09returned the sacred cities on the other
1:31:10side of the Tigers the sanctuaries of
1:31:12which have been ruins for a long time
1:31:14established for them permanent
1:31:16sanctuaries gathered all former
1:31:18inhabitants and returned them to their
1:31:19habitations on ghost this is in your
1:31:22British museum the do documents what the
1:31:25Fulfillment of the Prophecies of Isaiah
1:31:27in staggering terms it also has
1:31:29implications you need to understand this
1:31:31if you're going to understand what's
1:31:33going to happen in
1:31:35Iraq and we get we're getting ahead of
1:31:38ourselves well so we have babyin which
1:31:40went from 606 to 539 BC but it was
1:31:42conquered of course by the Persians but
1:31:45the Persians lasted from 539 to about 3
1:31:4832 roughly two centuries and there's
1:31:50another young man that rises to Power by
1:31:53by then in Daniel chapter 8 we have the
1:31:57details of the conquest of the Persians
1:32:00by this young upstart called
1:32:02Alexander the the Daniel 8 is about two
1:32:05years after a vision of Daniel 7 we're
1:32:07going to look at that next time and it's
1:32:09about 12 years this this prophecy is
1:32:12about 12 years before the fall of
1:32:15Babylon so it's really early it's
1:32:17amazing how God can speak in these
1:32:19idioms about the fall of Empires that
1:32:22haven't even emerged yet there's a way
1:32:24it does that and uh but in Daniel 8 we
1:32:27have the vision of the RAM and the goat
1:32:29and the ram is defeated by this goat
1:32:31from the West the goat from the West is
1:32:34described as moving so fast it doesn't
1:32:35even touch the ground and of course um
1:32:39Alexander by the time he gets to 29 he
1:32:43is said to have fallen his bed weeping
1:32:44because there are no more countries left
1:32:45to conquer um but it's interesting when
1:32:49the
1:32:51leader dies the empire ire is divided up
1:32:55among his four generals that's what the
1:32:56Daniel predicts and uh the the term horn
1:33:01in animals is a a symbol of authority
1:33:04and it's used in these Visions to speak
1:33:05of a leader or authority there's a
1:33:07notable horn that created the the Greek
1:33:11Empire it breaks into four and we'll
1:33:13look at that in a minute there's a
1:33:14little horn there that also is going to
1:33:16have a key role at the end but that's
1:33:17next
1:33:18time now Daniel interprets this for you
1:33:21basically a leader from the West who
1:33:23turns out to be course to be Alexander
1:33:24the Great will subdue the MEO Persian
1:33:26Empire that was Alexander's big Conquest
1:33:28to conquer the Persians and he has for
1:33:31when he dies as he's in a deathbed they
1:33:34say who to whom does the Empire go he
1:33:35says give it to the strong which
1:33:38guaranteed a fight among the four
1:33:39generals but cassander took Macedonia
1:33:41and Greece lmus took thce bethenia and
1:33:43most of Asia Minor tmy took to the South
1:33:46Egypt Serene Arabia and so on socas
1:33:50takes Syria and the lands Eastward all
1:33:53the way to India these four guys divided
1:33:56up the place now tmy is under tmy
1:34:00successor that the septent version is is
1:34:02translated we'll come back to that in a
1:34:04minute and under ccas his successors is
1:34:07one by the name of Antiochus epiphanies
1:34:08who's a very key player that Jesus makes
1:34:10illusion to we'll talk about shortly but
1:34:14uh so we want to focus a little bit uh
1:34:17on this period the Persian Empire
1:34:19succeeded by the Greek Empire which of
1:34:20course is succeeded by the Roman Empire
1:34:23the sep two agent version see when you
1:34:24get to the Greek Empire one of the
1:34:26things Alexander did was to enforce
1:34:28Greek as the international language if
1:34:31you were a Jew growing up under that
1:34:34Administration you probably didn't know
1:34:37Hebrew you knew Hebrew the way a
1:34:39Catholic knows Latin in other words it
1:34:41was preserved for ceremonial purposes
1:34:42but most Jews did not have a facility
1:34:45common commercial fac people uh in
1:34:48anything but Greek so tmy philadelphus
1:34:51II sponsored the translation of the Old
1:34:54Testament into
1:34:56Greek uh they impanel 70 scholars in
1:34:59Alexandria which is one of the big
1:35:00cultural centers of the old world to
1:35:03translate the Hebrew scriptures they
1:35:05started about 280 BC and they finished
1:35:07about 270 they started about 285 BC they
1:35:10finished about 270 BC and the reason
1:35:12that's so important we have that work
1:35:15product we have that translation of the
1:35:17Old Testament in fact it is the Greek
1:35:20translation of the Old Testament that is
1:35:22the usual Old Testament quotes of the
1:35:24New Testament when you read the New
1:35:25Testament they quote from the Old
1:35:27Testament they're quoting from the Greek
1:35:29translation and uh so it's a very
1:35:31important document it serves our
1:35:32purposes for a number of reasons coming
1:35:34up we'll also discover next time that
1:35:36this is also one of these successors um
1:35:39through the Greek chain of of successors
1:35:43was a god of Antiochus IV Antiochus
1:35:46epiphanies and he does some events that
1:35:48Jesus uses a frame as a frame of
1:35:50reference for the future and we'll talk
1:35:52about that at the time well okay the
1:35:54Greeks lasted from about 332 to about 68
1:35:57BC they had their day but as most of us
1:36:00know they were ultimately taken over by
1:36:03Rome and from 68 BC on Roman Empire
1:36:07about 68 BC Rome begins to emerge about
1:36:0963 BC Pompei conquers Judea major
1:36:14Milestone and he points Herod antipater
1:36:16an Edomite the ruler no he he appoints a
1:36:19non-jew as King of Judea and you imagine
1:36:23popular that was about 44 BC is when
1:36:26Julius Caesar is assassinated about 40
1:36:28BC the parthians conquered Judea this is
1:36:31a many people don't if their knowledge
1:36:33of history is superficial they don't
1:36:34realize that Judea was a buffer State
1:36:37the Romans conquered it pompe conquered
1:36:39it but wasn't able to hold it Herod when
1:36:43Herod was appointed King he was in Rome
1:36:45he didn't go to Judea it was too
1:36:46dangerous it was a it was a a buffer
1:36:49State the parthians conquered Judea it
1:36:52wasn't until 37 BC that the Romans
1:36:54regain Judea and Herod the Great
1:36:56succeeds antipater and that's why when
1:36:58the Magi who are the king makers of the
1:37:00parthian Empire show up with their
1:37:01military escort asking Herod where is he
1:37:05that's born King of the Jews that's an
1:37:07insult they arrive with military escort
1:37:10herod's nervous why because for all he
1:37:11knows they're trying to create a border
1:37:13incident where's he they cons they
1:37:16consult Micah and discover he's goingon
1:37:17to be born in Bethlehem so they go to
1:37:18worship Him in Bethlehem herod's nervous
1:37:21because he's an Roman appointee he's not
1:37:22even Jewish
1:37:24there's a king that's born King of the
1:37:25Jews he wants him put out of course it's
1:37:27it's a threat so there's a little
1:37:29background to the Magi that most people
1:37:31don't get into but anyway in 31 BC we
1:37:33have the Battle of acum and uh Rome
1:37:36continues to grow in 7
1:37:39ad caponas is appointed procurator and
1:37:43he does an interesting thing that's very
1:37:44important to understand the gospel
1:37:45period he removes the power of the
1:37:48Sanhedrin uh in many ways but not the
1:37:50least of which is they no longer have
1:37:51the right of capital punishment
1:37:54now what's interesting about this is
1:37:55just a small point to bring out the
1:37:58Babylonian talmid records an interesting
1:38:00incident when that happened the high
1:38:03priests were convinced that the word of
1:38:05God had been broken because in Genesis
1:38:0749:10 there was a commitment that the
1:38:10scepter would not depart from Judah
1:38:12until the Messiah came Genesis
1:38:1449:10 well when the Romans took away the
1:38:17cap the power of administering capital
1:38:20punishment the priests put on sackcloth
1:38:22and Ashes
1:38:24and marched around Jerusalem saying woe
1:38:26unto us for the scepter is departed from
1:38:29Judah and the Messiah has not yet come
1:38:32they thought the word of God had been
1:38:35broken what they didn't know was up
1:38:38about 20 miles to the North in a place
1:38:40called Nazareth there was a young boy in
1:38:43a carpenter shop awaiting his
1:38:46time but anyway continuing about 64 ad
1:38:49when we're going to skip ahead now Nero
1:38:51begins his persecutions you get to about
1:38:53284 ad in the Roman Empire that's when
1:38:56deian splits the empire into
1:38:59two and some Scholars suggests that
1:39:02maybe that's what's implied by the two
1:39:03legs of
1:39:05iron that represents that Roman Empire
1:39:08when you get to 312 ad that's when
1:39:10Constantine who's so fed up with the
1:39:12politics in Rome he moves the capital of
1:39:14the world from Rome to Byzantium and
1:39:17renames at
1:39:18Constantinople but when you get to about
1:39:20476
1:39:22ad the Empire starts breaking into
1:39:25pieces now one of the questions we like
1:39:27to
1:39:29ask who conquered Babylon the
1:39:33Persians who conquered the Persians the
1:39:36Greeks who conquered the Greeks the
1:39:40Romans who conquered the
1:39:43Romans the answer is no one the Empire
1:39:47broke into
1:39:48pieces and each of those pieces has had
1:39:52its day at dominance the Dutch the
1:39:56French more than once the Germans more
1:39:59than once bismar the Kaiser Etc England
1:40:03Mistress of the Seas Spain with the
1:40:04Spanish Armada as you study the history
1:40:07of Europe it's a history of each of the
1:40:10pieces struggling for dominance none of
1:40:12them quite making it in the sense of the
1:40:14classic
1:40:15Empires but if we understand Daniel 2
1:40:19and Daniel 7 which all Mel together and
1:40:21we'll take that next time
1:40:24this gives rise to a view among Bible
1:40:26scholars of what they call a weird name
1:40:29they call it the revived Roman Empire
1:40:31the Bible seems to portray that this
1:40:33Roman Empire is not gone it's in pieces
1:40:36but those pieces will
1:40:38recombine into another form that will be
1:40:42the dominant Factor on the planet Earth
1:40:45at the end times and we'll develop those
1:40:47ideas next time but they'll be built on
1:40:49the roots that we're laying here are we
1:40:51together so far okay
1:40:53now I'd like to with the time we've got
1:40:56left jump in to what has to be the most
1:41:02astonishing the most amazing passage in
1:41:05the entire Bible and that's in Daniel
1:41:08chapter n and of
1:41:10all obviously I've been studying
1:41:13prophecy for 40 years I have had there's
1:41:15a lot of favorite places but I have to
1:41:17tell you it was the discovery of this
1:41:21passage when I was te
1:41:23teager that so dramatically
1:41:26demonstrated the deity of Jesus Christ
1:41:29that he really had to be who he said he
1:41:31is that really caused me to really
1:41:34commit myself as a Christian and that's
1:41:36why this is very personal to me and yet
1:41:37I think it is so fundamental everybody
1:41:40that is confused about prophecy is
1:41:42confused about Daniel 9 if you
1:41:45understand the last four verses of
1:41:46Daniel 9 everything else in the Bible
1:41:48will fit together it's key and Jesus in
1:41:51fact makes that point point but let's
1:41:54just look at let's look at this first of
1:41:55all let's understand a couple of things
1:41:57the original Old Testament the Tanakh
1:42:00was of course in Hebrew and they the
1:42:02original text they refer to as the Vaga
1:42:04and that was probably pulled together in
1:42:06it in its current form in the days of
1:42:08Ezra and
1:42:09Nehemiah but as I pointed out before tmy
1:42:11philadelphias
1:42:12II funded and and organized the
1:42:23reason this is so important is for all
1:42:24two reasons first of all it's a document
1:42:26that we have possession of that's been
1:42:29around for three centuries even before
1:42:32the gospel period That's a matter of
1:42:33History check any
1:42:35encyclopedia it's also the ver verion
1:42:38that is quoted all through the New
1:42:40Testament almost all the quotes in the
1:42:42New Testament are from the Greek
1:42:45version and of course the the Greek the
1:42:47Hebrew what we our Hebrew Old Testament
1:42:50is drawn from muratic text which was
1:42:52which der from the Council of yni about
1:42:5490 ad and was cified at presid from
1:42:56about n 9th century so it's much more
1:42:59the septu is about a thousand years old
1:43:01uh
1:43:02older but Daniel 9 is an interesting
1:43:05book uh an interesting chapter the first
1:43:0820
1:43:09verses are about Daniel's prayer Daniel
1:43:12reads Jeremiah he's bear in mind Daniel
1:43:15was deported as a teenager he's been a
1:43:17slave in Babylon he's reading Jeremiah
1:43:20where Jeremiah predicts that the
1:43:21Captivity in Babylon would last last 70
1:43:24years we estimate that about 67 of those
1:43:26probably had gone by by then Daniel now
1:43:29is no longer a teenager he's an old man
1:43:31but he's reading Jeremiah and he
1:43:32realizes that the Captivity is about up
1:43:36so he doesn't put his feet on the desk
1:43:37say boy it's almost over what does he do
1:43:39about it he prays for
1:43:41it he prays for it most of us tend to
1:43:45well gee if it's prophesied it's
1:43:46inevitable Daniel didn't look at it that
1:43:48way he felt it was his obligation to
1:43:49pray for that result that's what Jesus
1:43:52told us to do in the Lord's prayer too
1:43:53he says how how should you pray thy
1:43:55kingdom come you should be praying for
1:43:57his kingdom to come anyway Daniel then
1:44:01commits himself to prayer in fact even
1:44:03in your English translation as you read
1:44:05those first 19 verses as you get to late
1:44:08last part of that you can almost feel
1:44:10him tremble the frequency of the verbs
1:44:13gets so tight you can just feel him
1:44:14build him he's getting pretty excited
1:44:17and it's the interrupted prayer of the
1:44:18Old Testament because during that prayer
1:44:21Gabriel interrupts him and shows go up
1:44:24and gives him the four most fantastic
1:44:26verses in the entire Bible so Gabriel
1:44:28visits about verse 20 to 23 and then we
1:44:31have What's called the 70 weeks prophecy
1:44:34given by Gabriel to Daniel verses 24 25
1:44:3826 and 27 of chapter n those four verses
1:44:41I encourage you to master to really
1:44:44study carefully the 70 weeks of Daniel
1:44:47the first of the four verses verse 24 is
1:44:50the scope of the whole thing
1:44:53verse 25 the second of the four verses
1:44:57talks about 69 weeks of years we we'll
1:44:59look at that carefully in a
1:45:01minute then there's an interval in verse
1:45:0426 and then there's a 70th week in verse
1:45:0627 one of the things to have keep you
1:45:09from getting confused is to recognize
1:45:12that the 69 weeks are embraced in verse
1:45:1525 but there's one left to talk about
1:45:18the so-called 70th week it's not talked
1:45:21about until verse 27
1:45:23verse 26 deals with some issues that
1:45:26occur after the
1:45:2769 but before the 70th which is our clue
1:45:31that they're not
1:45:33contiguous we would naturally think the
1:45:3570 weeks are contiguous one right after
1:45:36the other and they are except for an
1:45:38interval between the 69th and 7th and
1:45:41that's not a conjecture it's expressed
1:45:43in the text but you need to be sensitive
1:45:44to it and that's that we are in that
1:45:47interval so we need to understand what
1:45:49that interval is all about we also need
1:45:51to understand what that 70th week talks
1:45:53about and that's what we're going to
1:45:55deal with very specifically next time
1:45:57but let's take a look at the scope of
1:45:59the whole thing Gabriel tells Daniel
1:46:01that 70 shab 70 weeks these are weeks of
1:46:04years are determined upon thy people
1:46:07upon thy holy city now let me back up if
1:46:09I told you I'm going to go away for a
1:46:11decade when would you expect me
1:46:14back 10 years because when I say decade
1:46:16we assume years I didn't say I just did
1:46:19it 10 didn't I see you and I if we talk
1:46:22about weeks we think of seven days as a
1:46:25but in the Jewish World you have a week
1:46:26of days called a a week you also have a
1:46:29week of weeks accounting of the Omer the
1:46:31shab Feast of shot is seven seven weeks
1:46:34of weeks you have se you have a week of
1:46:37months from nison to tissy the
1:46:39ecclesiastical year you also have a week
1:46:42of years just as you had a Sabbath for
1:46:45man six days the seventh year rest you
1:46:47you had a Sabbath for the land six years
1:46:49you plow it the seventh you let it lay
1:46:50fellow and litic five he gives you all
1:46:53the rules the point is to a Jewish mind
1:46:55a week of years is a normal concept when
1:46:59Jacob worked for laan for Rachel and for
1:47:03Leia he completed their week it was a
1:47:05week a year seven years of labor for
1:47:07each it speaks of them I completed her
1:47:09week week of what week of years for his
1:47:12label so those those terms are used uh
1:47:15in the Old Testament and the
1:47:16new 77s are determined upon whom notice
1:47:20who these these are not determined upon
1:47:22the church
1:47:2377s are determined upon thy people and
1:47:25the holy city what's the scope of this
1:47:28prophecy Israel and the City of
1:47:30Jerusalem let's not lose sight of that
1:47:32many people get
1:47:33confused to do six things to finish
1:47:36transgression make an end of sins to
1:47:39make reconciliation for iniquity to
1:47:40bring an everlasting righteousness to
1:47:42seal up Vision in the prophecy and to
1:47:45anoint the most holy Place six
1:47:47things now we could spend a lot of time
1:47:50going through these but I think all we
1:47:51need to really do right now is recognize
1:47:54are these completed yet have we finished
1:47:58transgressing not so you notice H have
1:48:01we made an end of
1:48:03sins pick up a daily
1:48:05paper to make reconciliation for
1:48:07iniquity we could you could argue that
1:48:09was done at the cross to bring in
1:48:11Everlasting righteousness has that
1:48:12happened yet I don't think so to seal up
1:48:16vision of Prophecy and to anoint the
1:48:17most holy place so the point of this
1:48:19scope this verse 24 is the scope of the
1:48:21whole thing and what we know is that it
1:48:23ain't complete yet are we together
1:48:25that's all we need for right now now we
1:48:27get to the most interesting verse of the
1:48:29bunch in many respects verse
1:48:3225 Gabriel says to Daniel know therefore
1:48:34and understand that from the going forth
1:48:37of the Commandment to restore and to
1:48:38build Jerusalem bear in mind Daniel's in
1:48:40slavery in Babylon Jerusalem 200 miles
1:48:43to the West is in rubble it's been there
1:48:44for 70
1:48:46years it says know that from the going
1:48:48forth of the Commandment to restore and
1:48:50to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah
1:48:52indeed the Messiah the king shall be
1:48:55seven weeks and three score and two
1:48:57weeks the street shall be built again
1:48:59and the wall even in troubled
1:49:01times unto the messiah messiah nagid the
1:49:04word nagid is first used of Saul it
1:49:06means king it's translated prince in
1:49:08your King James but that's misleading
1:49:10because most of us think of a prince as
1:49:11a king a king in Waiting or something
1:49:14the term there is used as a king M nag
1:49:17shall be seven and three score and two
1:49:19in other words 7 plus 62 there's all
1:49:22kinds of specul calculations the why is
1:49:23it's 762 I'll spare that for now to keep
1:49:25it going because we won't make it if I
1:49:27get in all the side preps
1:49:28here but notice the scope of this is not
1:49:32the
1:49:34temple it's the city if you study study
1:49:37Bibles have footnotes say there's four
1:49:38different decrees that could fit there
1:49:40some say three there's actually four but
1:49:42three of the four are about the temple
1:49:44not about the city there's only one
1:49:45decree that has to do with the city I'll
1:49:47come back to that in a minute and here
1:49:49notice what the holy spirit says through
1:49:50Gabriel the street shall be built again
1:49:52and the wall even in troubless times so
1:49:56the focus of this is the
1:49:58city now I want you to notice the from
1:50:01and unto this is a precise mathematical
1:50:05statement Gabriel says to Daniel know
1:50:07therefore understand that from the going
1:50:09forth of the Commandment unto the
1:50:10Messiah shall be a period of time let's
1:50:14take a look at this from the
1:50:15Commandments you restored to Jerusalem
1:50:16and the mhia nagid is 69 weeks 62 + 7
1:50:21time 7 to make it a week of years and
1:50:24we're indebted to the scholarship of Sir
1:50:26Robert Anderson who was kned he's the
1:50:28head of Scotland Yard and his his
1:50:30classic work in
1:50:311894 was the first to really unravel
1:50:34this whole
1:50:35thing but he recognized that God uses in
1:50:38Genesis and in Revelation in all between
1:50:41years of 360 days and we could spend an
1:50:43hour explaining why but at this point
1:50:45let me just stipulate it as a Biblical
1:50:47observation there are all kinds of
1:50:49scientific conjectures about the planet
1:50:51Mars being on a synchronous orbit with
1:50:53the Earth with near pass by that caused
1:50:54adjustments and calendars there's a
1:50:56whole fascinating background but we that
1:50:58that we'll leave that for simply all we
1:51:00need to realize here is that God does
1:51:03choose to use 360 day years now which
1:51:07means that what Gabriel is telling
1:51:09Daniel is that from the Commandment to
1:51:10restore and build Jerusalem unto the
1:51:11Messiah the king will be 173,880
1:51:14days well what the first point is when
1:51:17does this trigger what triggers this
1:51:19whole thing it turns out there's one
1:51:21clear decree and Nehemiah chapter 2 was
1:51:25a decree by Artic Xerxes L jamus that
1:51:27was given on March 14th of 445 BC and
1:51:31that's well documented in the writings
1:51:32of Sir Robert Anderson he published a
1:51:35book called The Coming Prince back in
1:51:361894 you could it was a book out of
1:51:38print for many many years today you can
1:51:40get it in any well stock Christian
1:51:41bookstore it's it's it's an essential
1:51:44part of your library if you're serious
1:51:45about
1:51:46prophecy the question is okay that's the
1:51:50trigger but Gabriel says to the Messiah
1:51:53the
1:51:55king and we have a problem
1:51:57here several times in the gospels they
1:52:00tried to take Jesus and make him a king
1:52:03and he said my hour is not yet come and
1:52:05he slips away that happened several
1:52:07times John 6 several other
1:52:08places then one day something very
1:52:11strange happens there's one particular
1:52:14day that he not only allows it he
1:52:16arranges it he tells a couple of his
1:52:18guys to go to a certain place give the
1:52:20guy a password he'll release a donkey
1:52:22and he r finds that donkey from Bethany
1:52:24up over the Mount of Olives going
1:52:25Westward down through the kedron valley
1:52:27into Jerusalem we celebrate that day we
1:52:31call it Triumph entry or sometimes you
1:52:33call it Palm Sunday now we you got we
1:52:36need to get the picture here um
1:52:39Jerusalem it's it's four days until
1:52:42Passover it's one of the three days of
1:52:44the year which every able boded Jew that
1:52:47could was supposed to be there so so the
1:52:50place is crowd the place is crowded with
1:52:51tourists
1:52:53and they've all heard about Lazarus and
1:52:54all this so they're excited so as he
1:52:56comes writing they're excited and uh
1:52:59what do they
1:53:01do well first of all he arranges this
1:53:04donkey I want to go back and remind you
1:53:06from last time Zechariah 99 where
1:53:10Zachariah five centuries earlier said
1:53:12Rejoice greatly oh Daughter of Zion
1:53:14shout oh daughter of Jerusalem Behold
1:53:17thy King cometh unto thee he is just and
1:53:20having salvation lowly riding upon an
1:53:21ass and upon a coat the fo of an ass we
1:53:25often quote that because remember that
1:53:27predicts that Jesus is going to ride the
1:53:28donkey but I want you to notice a key
1:53:29word
1:53:30here Behold thy what
1:53:33comes thy King Jesus is writing that
1:53:37donkey deliberately fulfilling Zechariah
1:53:419:9 now when you get to Luke chapter
1:53:4619 is one of the several gospels that
1:53:48record the
1:53:49event it mentions that the people as he
1:53:52comes writing are singing a
1:53:54Psalm they're saying blessed be the king
1:53:57that cometh in the name of the Lord
1:53:58peace in heaven and glory in the highest
1:54:00that's in Luke Chapter 19:38 but they're
1:54:03quoting Psalm 118 how many of you have
1:54:05heard the psalm this is the day which
1:54:08the Lord hath made we shall rejoice and
1:54:09be glad in it how many have heard that
1:54:11sure you all have and we tend to
1:54:14celebrate that verse as applying to any
1:54:16day this is the day which the Lord hath
1:54:18made indeed he has and I'm not saying
1:54:20that's wrong but that's not what the
1:54:21psalm is talking about
1:54:23that Psalm is intended to speak of this
1:54:28day this is the day which the Lord hath
1:54:31made we shall rejoice and be glad in it
1:54:33why because blessed be the king that
1:54:35cometh in the name of the Lord they are
1:54:37declaring him the Messiah now whenever
1:54:42you and I as Gentile readers run the
1:54:44risk of missing a point the Pharisees
1:54:47come to our
1:54:48rescue every time you see them upset
1:54:53that's a flag the holy spirit's put
1:54:55there to get your attention there's a
1:54:56reason they're
1:54:57upset now as he he's riding the donkey
1:55:00in they're singing they they got their
1:55:03palm branches and their coats laying
1:55:04down it's a big deal everybody's joyous
1:55:07and they're singing Psalm
1:55:08118 the Pharisees from among the
1:55:10multitudes said unto Jesus Master rebuke
1:55:15your
1:55:16disciples they're upset they're not
1:55:19they're not trying to quiet the crowd
1:55:20they couldn't do that if they tried but
1:55:22they certainly figure he doesn't want
1:55:25them doing what they're
1:55:27doing why what are they upset
1:55:30about they the Pharisees believe that
1:55:33he's allowing the crowd to
1:55:35blaspheme because the Pharisees
1:55:37recognize the crowd is declaring him the
1:55:41mashiach nagid the Messiah the king this
1:55:44whole
1:55:45situation is one that they assume he
1:55:49certainly doesn't expect to be called
1:55:51the Son of God the Messiah and so on and
1:55:54so forth Master rebuke your disciples
1:55:56that's in verse 39 I love the next verse
1:55:58where Jesus so tactfully says to them
1:56:00Jesus answered and said to them I tell
1:56:02you that if these should hold their
1:56:04peace the stones would immediately cry
1:56:08out that must have shook him
1:56:11up whenever we're in Israel one of the
1:56:13things you'll always do if you go on any
1:56:15tour you'll end up going to the top of
1:56:16the Mount of Olives because there's a
1:56:17great photo op up there there's a
1:56:19there's a hotel seven arches and you
1:56:21buses will park there and you can take
1:56:22your pictures of this incredible Skyline
1:56:24because it's just across the kedrin
1:56:25valley and what you usually do from
1:56:28there since your next stop is usually
1:56:30gemon which is the base of the Hill the
1:56:32at the in the valley the buses you
1:56:34usually come around there and pick you
1:56:35up there what you do typically is you'll
1:56:37walk from there just down this road to
1:56:39the to Gethsemane where your guy your
1:56:41tour guide will typically have some a
1:56:43Bible study there on Gethsemane and then
1:56:45the buses will take you to your next
1:56:46stop it's a very typical pattern works
1:56:47out pretty comfortably whenever our tour
1:56:50is about to get off the bus on the top
1:56:51of Mount of olives I said take all your
1:56:53pictures and so forth but if you want
1:56:55the best bargain in Israel I'll tell you
1:56:57what it is uh you know the secret in to
1:56:59take a small fortune out of Israel is to
1:57:00bring a large fortune in you know how to
1:57:02do that well so what you're looking for
1:57:04is to get to survive this whole thing
1:57:06one of the things you do is when you
1:57:08walking down that road to
1:57:10Gethsemane reach down and pick a couple
1:57:12of stones and put them in your pocket
1:57:14when you get back to the United States
1:57:16or wherever your hometown is what you do
1:57:18is go to a trophy shop and have them
1:57:19Mount that for you want a piece of
1:57:21Walnut or whatever it yourself with some
1:57:22epoxy put a little plaque on it if you
1:57:24like and you put that in your Den or in
1:57:26your living room or in your desk at work
1:57:29and when somebody says what's that he
1:57:31said that's one of the stones that
1:57:32didn't cry out and you get to explain
1:57:35Daniel 9 Luke 19 right and they brought
1:57:39it up right you
1:57:42see anyway let's talk a little bit about
1:57:45the chronology of his
1:57:47ministry Christ's Ministry began in the
1:57:49fall of 28 ad and how do I know that
1:57:52we know that tiberias was appointed in
1:57:5414 ad because Augustus died in August
1:57:5619th of 14 ad and Luke 3:1 says it was
1:58:01in the 15th year of tiberias which means
1:58:03it's for it's in the 15th year that
1:58:06means it's 14 years into it you with me
1:58:0914 years behind it so you take 14 when
1:58:12he was appointed and 14 years is 28 so
1:58:15when when 28 years are behind him he's
1:58:17in the 15th year you get the picture
1:58:18many people add that wrong he it's
1:58:21within the 15th year year that Luke's
1:58:22talking about so it's the point is it uh
1:58:25his ministry began in the fall of 28
1:58:28ad now the fourth Passover which is the
1:58:31Passover that in which he's crucified
1:58:34turns out to be April 6 of 32 ad that's
1:58:36again sir Robert Anderson supplies as
1:58:39well background you will find some books
1:58:41that have a different chronology because
1:58:43they're trying to protect or defend a
1:58:45Friday
1:58:46crucifixion We Believe from Matthew 28
1:58:49in the Greek and well from about three
1:58:51or four points of view that Jesus could
1:58:53not have been crucified on a Friday it
1:58:55would have to be prior to that because
1:58:57there were two sabbaths that week that
1:58:59that week not the Shabbat on Saturday
1:59:01and also the Feast of un living bread
1:59:03there were when the Sabbath's plural
1:59:05were passed the women come to the tomb
1:59:07so we know it couldn't be anyway I W get
1:59:08all that here but the reason you find
1:59:10some of these other chronologies is
1:59:11because they're trying to protect a
1:59:13Friday crucifixion and U leave that
1:59:16where it is the point is the Triumph
1:59:18entry was April 6th 32 ad here's what's
1:59:21interesting
1:59:22if you go from 4:45 March 14th to 445 BC
1:59:26to April 632 ad 445 to 32 ad is
1:59:3117374 days remember there's no year zero
1:59:34from March 14th to April 6th another 24
1:59:36days and the leap years if you go
1:59:37through all that Ral is 116 days when
1:59:39you add that
1:59:40up between the degree of AR xeres lanus
1:59:44in March 14th of 445 BC and the
1:59:47triumphal entry in which Jesus
1:59:49deliberately presents himself as the
1:59:50king the Messiah that the mhi nagid is
1:59:54173,880
1:59:56days what was Gabriel's margin for
1:59:59error
2:00:00zero right on the
2:00:03money and incidentally the septu agent
2:00:06translation set aside who wrote Daniel
2:00:08set aside uh all those things it was in
2:00:11black and white as part of the sepian
2:00:13translation three centuries
2:00:17earlier remarkable astonishing the more
2:00:19you Analyze This you come to the
2:00:22inescapable conclusion that Jesus Christ
2:00:26was the Fulfillment of the Old Testament
2:00:28prophecies he presented himself on
2:00:30schedule as the Messiah the king to
2:00:33Jerusalem say gee wasn't his death a
2:00:36tragedy no it was an achievement that's
2:00:38what he was born for that's what he came
2:00:40to do to die for you and
2:00:43I so SE to agent 300 years prior to the
2:00:46event black and white no way to argue it
2:00:50you can try to quibble some of the
2:00:51details but just being
2:00:52uninformed it stands tight but we're not
2:00:56through as he's riding this donkey up
2:00:58over the brow of the Hill coming down
2:01:00through the kran valley he going to in
2:01:01Jerusalem as he sees Jerusalem spread
2:01:03what does he
2:01:04do when he's come near he beheld the
2:01:06city and what did he do he wept over it
2:01:09Luke
2:01:1019 saying if thou Hast
2:01:13known even thou at least in this thy day
2:01:18the things which belong to thy peace but
2:01:20now they are HID from thine eyes
2:01:22notice that
2:01:23phrase in this thy day this was the day
2:01:27that they should have anticipated this
2:01:29is the day that
2:01:32prophets from Adam on were looking
2:01:37for the things which belong like peace
2:01:39but notice the tragic indictment he
2:01:43declares on the people but now they are
2:01:47HID from thine
2:01:49eyes we often are astonished how Jewish
2:01:52Scholars can read the Old Testament and
2:01:54they can look at the records how can
2:01:56they
2:01:57miss because they it's
2:01:59hidden it's hidden we know we're getting
2:02:03near the end times in part because it's
2:02:04getting less and less hidden they're
2:02:06starting to realize that more and more
2:02:07rabbis are acknowledging that Jesus is
2:02:09the
2:02:11Messiah but Jesus goes on he says for
2:02:14the day shall come upon thee that thine
2:02:16enemy shall cast a trench about thee
2:02:18andc Compass thee around and and uh keep
2:02:20thee in on every side
2:02:22and shall lay thee even with the ground
2:02:24and thy children within thee and they
2:02:26shall not leave in thee one stone upon
2:02:29another I think most of us realize that
2:02:3138 years later the Roman Legions under
2:02:35Titus
2:02:36basian the fifth 10th 12th and 15th
2:02:39Roman Legions laid Siege to the city of
2:02:40Jerusalem for nine months and they
2:02:42slaughtered over a million men women and
2:02:45children and another half million died
2:02:47from famine and disease
2:02:49following the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD
2:02:52one of the biggest events milestones in
2:02:54Jewish
2:02:56history now one of the questions I want
2:02:59to ask
2:03:00you why was Jerusalem destroyed in 70
2:03:06AD there are lots of reasonable response
2:03:09to that question but let me show you the
2:03:13shocking reason that Jesus quoted in the
2:03:15rest of verse
2:03:1744 they shall not leave in thee in one
2:03:19stone left upon another because thou
2:03:21knewest
2:03:23not the time of thy
2:03:28visitation
2:03:30staggering he held them accountable to
2:03:33no
2:03:34prophecy
2:03:36now we looked at verse 25 following
2:03:39verse
2:03:4125 is another week but it's not dealt
2:03:43with until verse 27 between verse 25
2:03:47which has 7 plus 62 or the 69 weeks and
2:03:49verse 27 there's an interval a gap if
2:03:52you will and that Gap is where we are
2:03:55today you can almost look at it as if if
2:03:58you've ever played with a chess clock
2:04:00you know one clock's running the other
2:04:01one stops you know when you when you
2:04:03play it's as if Israel's clock stopped
2:04:06and the church's clock started and
2:04:08Israel's clock won't start again until
2:04:10the church is
2:04:11complete and we're going to explore that
2:04:13more thoroughly next time but I want you
2:04:16to notice verse 26 the
2:04:19interval Gabriel continues to Daniel
2:04:21saying after the three score and two
2:04:23remember there's 7 plus 62 after the
2:04:25three score and two weeks which is like
2:04:27saying after the 69 weeks shall the
2:04:29Messiah be karat cut off executed but
2:04:32not for
2:04:34himself who is he executed
2:04:37for you and
2:04:40me and the people of the prince that
2:04:43shall come shall destroy the city in the
2:04:45sanctuary and the end thereof shall be
2:04:48with a flood and unto the end of the war
2:04:51desolations are
2:04:52determined now there's a strange phrase
2:04:55in here we'll talk about in more detail
2:04:57next time the prince that shall
2:05:00come that's one of 33
2:05:04titles of a coming world
2:05:07leader the willful King the man of sin
2:05:12we tend to use the term Antichrist to
2:05:14speak of him but it says the people of
2:05:17the prince that shall come shall destroy
2:05:19the city of the sanctuary who were the
2:05:20people that didn't destroy the city and
2:05:22the
2:05:24sanctuary the
2:05:26Romans that's why the prince that shall
2:05:29come is viewed by scholars in some sense
2:05:31as a Roman it's the people of the prince
2:05:33that shall come that destroyed the city
2:05:34in the sanctuary so it gives us a clue
2:05:37at least a hint of some kind of what
2:05:39this coming leader will be like now as
2:05:42we look at verse
2:05:4326 there are some events that occur
2:05:46after verse 25 but verse before verse 27
2:05:49the first is that the Messiah shall be
2:05:51cut or executed the
2:05:54cross 4 days after riding that donkey by
2:05:57the way when he's riding that donkey
2:05:59into the Jerusalem over in the temple
2:06:01the smoke was curling up from the
2:06:04offerings and the priests were examining
2:06:07the Lambs for the Passover the Lambs had
2:06:10to be on inspection for four days from
2:06:13the 10th of Nissan to the 14th so while
2:06:16they were inspecting the Lambs he was
2:06:18presenting himself to the people get the
2:06:21picture
2:06:23but of course 4 days later that same
2:06:25crowd that was cheering was also yelling
2:06:27in the Square crucify him and of course
2:06:30he was crucified 38 years later we have
2:06:33the city and the sanctuary destroyed by
2:06:37so we have 38 years of events at least
2:06:41within that interval how long is that
2:06:43interval nobody knows it is still going
2:06:47on no one knows when that interval is
2:06:51compl complete we're going to talk about
2:06:52how to tell about that in the next two
2:06:56sessions but we do know that Israel's
2:06:58clock has stopped at the 69th week the
2:07:0170th
2:07:02week appears to be ready to
2:07:05start and to understand when it's going
2:07:08to start we have to understand the 7th
2:07:09week and that's going to be the specific
2:07:11topic next time but I like to show you
2:07:12something else um indebted to Clarence
2:07:15Len back in 1919 for this
2:07:18perspective if you take the time from
2:07:21Abra Abraham
2:07:23on from from the promise given to
2:07:25Abraham in Genesis
2:07:2712:4 um there was about 75 years till
2:07:30then Till The Exodus and Galatians 3:17
2:07:33we know is 430 years so if you add those
2:07:35up that's 505 years but if you subtract
2:07:37from those 55 years the 15 years that
2:07:40Ishmael was in in a sense a usurper you
2:07:43get 40 490 years that's
2:07:46curious if you go from The Exodus the
2:07:48temple The Exodus began according to
2:07:50First Kings 6-8 about 5 about 594 years
2:07:55uh and then um it was completed uh after
2:07:58another seven the temple that is the the
2:08:01the temple was built in other words 594
2:08:03years after the Exodus completed after
2:08:05seven years adds up the 601 years if you
2:08:09take the servitudes of the judges there
2:08:10were seven servitudes listed there
2:08:12excuse me six servitudes listed there um
2:08:15and you add those up it's 111 years in
2:08:16total well you take the 111 again if you
2:08:19take from the calendar time the years
2:08:22that Israel is in judgment or in
2:08:24disfavor you end up with what's left 490
2:08:27years that's curious you go from the
2:08:30temple to the Edict of AR ex Xerxes that
2:08:32we just looked at the the temple from
2:08:34First Kings 8 is about 1005 BC Nehemiah
2:08:38chapter 2 we just looked at that dating
2:08:40445 BC there's 560 years between the two
2:08:44but in that period of time you have the
2:08:4670 years Babylonian captivity if you
2:08:48subtract that you again get 490 years
2:08:52well if you go from AR Xerxes decree
2:08:54until the first Advent the six end of
2:08:56the 69 weeks of course it's 69 * 7 or
2:08:58483
2:09:00years we have a 70th week left which
2:09:02adds up to 490 but there's an interval
2:09:04again where Israel is set aside so to
2:09:07speak uh again if you you subtract that
2:09:10out you still you end up with 490 if you
2:09:11put these all together it's interesting
2:09:13that 70 time 7 seems to be a period of
2:09:16time that repeats itself from Abraham to
2:09:18The Exodus if you if you if you don't
2:09:20count the age that the time that they're
2:09:22not under the promise 490 years Exodus
2:09:25to the temple 490 years and the temple
2:09:27to edict or exes 490 years AR exer the
2:09:30second coming 49 years very curious
2:09:32observation by Clarence Larin I find
2:09:34kind of curious especially when Jesus
2:09:36says when they ask him how how often
2:09:37should I forgive my brother seven time
2:09:39seven he says 70 times seven and some
2:09:42people fig well that's just a figure of
2:09:43meaning it's unlimited or maybe it means
2:09:46that's how many times God has forgiven
2:09:48Israel but let's go on to something else
2:09:52the desolations of
2:09:56Jerusalem Jerusalem was destroyed by
2:09:58Nebuchadnezzar and Ezekiel even though
2:10:01he was in slavery in Babylon at the time
2:10:03records in chapter 24 he says in the
2:10:05ninth year in the 10th month on the 10th
2:10:07day of the month the word of the Lord
2:10:08came to me saying s a man write Thee the
2:10:10name of the of the day even of this same
2:10:12day the king of Babylon set himself
2:10:14against Jerusalem this day the 10th of
2:10:17the month on the 10th day of the
2:10:19month Hagi talks about the completion of
2:10:22the desolations of Jerusalem in Hagi 2
2:10:25Hagi says now I pray you consider from
2:10:26this day and upward from before A Stone
2:10:28was laid upon Stone in the temple of the
2:10:30Lord consider now from this day and
2:10:32upward the four and 20th day of the n9th
2:10:34month the four and the 20th day of the
2:10:36n9th month even from the day of the
2:10:37foundation of the Lord's Temple was laid
2:10:39considerate the point is the very time
2:10:42the Babylonian Army was surrounding
2:10:44Jerusalem to destroy it Ezekiel hundreds
2:10:46of miles away in Babylon identifies as
2:10:49the 10th day of tith 589 BC
2:10:52Hagi Nails the day that they ended 24th
2:10:55day of kisla 520 BC the interval between
2:10:58these two Jewish dates is 2500 25,200
2:11:02days that's 70 years of 360 days each to
2:11:06the
2:11:07day the desolation of Jerusalem were
2:11:09predicted to be 70 years there's 70
2:11:11years to the very day if you go through
2:11:13all the arithmetic you got to go to 2
2:11:15Kings 25 and Jeremiah 524 Pi pin down
2:11:18some of the details now there's another
2:11:21verse I have to share with you you can't
2:11:23be to a Chuck Mister Bible study without
2:11:25getting at least a little On The Fringe
2:11:26I want to show you something that is um
2:11:30say I say a conjecture I don't want to
2:11:31oversell this but I think you might find
2:11:33it
2:11:34interesting in Ezekiel chapter 4 in the
2:11:36first eight verses there is in effect
2:11:40without going in the
2:11:41details God says through Ezekiel that
2:11:43there's going to be 4 there's 430 years
2:11:45of judgment predicted upon the on the
2:11:48nation well the problem with this is 70
2:11:51of those years we account for that's the
2:11:53Babylonian captivity but that leaves 360
2:11:56that doesn't fit anything you can play
2:11:59around with this and try to fit it and
2:12:00all gu all kinds of guys have and
2:12:01nothing quite works but some people have
2:12:04noticed that in the Book of Leviticus
2:12:06four different times in chapter 26 God
2:12:09says if you will not for all this
2:12:10hearken unto me then I will punish you
2:12:13seven times more for your sins that's in
2:12:16Leviticus 26 verse 18 verse 21 verse 24
2:12:18and verse 28 four times that's said in
2:12:20there in other words if you don't pay me
2:12:22the first time I'm going to multiply
2:12:23your punishment by seven so some
2:12:24Scholars say gee that's kind of
2:12:25interesting I wonder if that's what
2:12:27we're supposed to do the 360 missing
2:12:29years if we multiply
2:12:32360 um years by seven that's 2520 years
2:12:38and there have been some commentators
2:12:40that's where I picked up on this that
2:12:41said GE that's roughly the time from
2:12:43Nebuchadnezzar till the time the nation
2:12:44was re established well I never like to
2:12:47use the word about or approximate and
2:12:49the in the name of God in the same
2:12:50sentence it either fits or it doesn't
2:12:52but I noticed no one had ever applied
2:12:54what we've learned from Sir Robert
2:12:56Anderson so back I guess it's been about
2:12:5830 years ago now but I remember that
2:13:00time I thought gee what happens if you
2:13:01really apply the lessons from Sir Robert
2:13:03Anderson to this peculiar problem well
2:13:07the
2:13:082520 years of 360-day years what is that
2:13:12on our calendar well if you multiply
2:13:142520 by 360 you get
2:13:1797,2 but that doesn't help you because
2:13:18you got leap beer problems
2:13:21um and if you go through all of this you
2:13:23you have if you know you have you take
2:13:25every fourth year as a leap year but
2:13:26then you'll have three too many for each
2:13:27Century which gives you 18 too many in
2:13:30this period of time because the Julian
2:13:32year is 18 11 minutes and 10.46 seconds
2:13:35longer than the mean solar year and on
2:13:38top of that they recognized this in the
2:13:39Gregorian reform when they readjusted
2:13:41the calendar they modified the the rule
2:13:43for leap years they also removed 11 days
2:13:46from the calendar well we need uh we had
2:13:49621 parent leap years but we removed 11
2:13:53but we need to remove 18 so it take
2:13:55seven from that that gives us 614 leape
2:13:57days we have to add to the equation to
2:13:59make a long story short the um
2:14:03220 years of 360 days on our calendar
2:14:07are 204 uh 2,483 years nine months and
2:14:1121 days okay you say gee Chuck that's
2:14:14exciting what do I do with that okay
2:14:16well I'm not sure because there's
2:14:18another
2:14:19problem okay but just remember the 2520
2:14:22360 day years are 2483 years 9 months
2:14:26and 21 days okay
2:14:29now let's talk about this Babylon
2:14:31captivity because many people fumble the
2:14:33details and so Robert Anderson is one of
2:14:36the guys that doesn't he does it
2:14:38correctly Babylon SE the siege of
2:14:40Nebuchadnezzar had put him in power when
2:14:42he was that first Siege which what ended
2:14:44the it it started it ended the nation it
2:14:47made it put it started the servitude of
2:14:48the
2:14:49nation and he put and a vassel king went
2:14:51back home took over the
2:14:54throne the the Jeremiah and Ezekiel both
2:14:58said hey guys Nebuchadnezzar is the hand
2:15:01of God don't Rebel or God will destroy
2:15:04Jerusalem the false prophet told the
2:15:06king hey come on we're God's chosen
2:15:08people rebel against Nebuchadnezzar and
2:15:10it wasn't very long before the king got
2:15:12on zigot trip and rebelled against
2:15:13Nebuchadnezzar so there's a second Siege
2:15:16where they Siege a second time they take
2:15:18that king take care of him and put his
2:15:20uncle Zed in charge go back home to do
2:15:23business same scenario Jeremiah says
2:15:27don't fight it maybe the Babylonians are
2:15:30God's instrument the false prophets said
2:15:32no we're God's people let's Rebel and so
2:15:35once again in fact they they put
2:15:37Jeremiah in the dungeon in prison
2:15:39because he was a traitor we're going to
2:15:41you know we're the people of God we're
2:15:43going to shake the yoke of
2:15:44Nebuchadnezzar so they Rebel Again by
2:15:47this time Nebuchadnezzar has a belly
2:15:49full of the whole operation he lays
2:15:51Siege the third time and he does exactly
2:15:53what Jeremiah and Ezekiel predicted he
2:15:55not only takes them all captive he
2:15:57levels the city so we need to understand
2:16:00there's a couple of
2:16:01phrases um there the servitude of the
2:16:04nation starts with the first Siege and
2:16:06it finishes with the decree of Cyrus
2:16:08that we just looked at that ended the
2:16:10slavery of the
2:16:12nation the the their captivity started
2:16:14the first Siege when the Persians
2:16:16conquer Babylon Cyrus comes and says you
2:16:18guys can go home that ends the servitude
2:16:20of the nation
2:16:21but it doesn't deal with the city of
2:16:22Jerusalem it's a different
2:16:25issue the desolations of Jerusalem start
2:16:28from the third Siege of
2:16:29Nebuchadnezzar they were slaves yes but
2:16:31they were rebelling so he wiped out the
2:16:33city took them all slaves he' left some
2:16:35there to to to be the vessals the
2:16:38desolations of Jerusalem end with the
2:16:40decree of our exercises that we just
2:16:41looked at that triggers the 70th week of
2:16:43Daniel do you see that what confuses
2:16:45people who don't read carefully the
2:16:47servitude of the nation is 70 years the
2:16:50desolations of of Jerusalem for 70 years
2:16:52but they're not
2:16:53coterminous they start at different
2:16:55times each one is fulfilled to the exact
2:16:58day by the
2:17:00way now say G Chuck that's very
2:17:03interesting but what do I do with your
2:17:062,483 years nine months and 21
2:17:09days well I'm not
2:17:12sure but I I always look at it like
2:17:15you're in a garden and the Wall's
2:17:17covered with Ivy and you look through
2:17:18the Ivy and there's a door old door
2:17:21there you look down the in the weeds and
2:17:23there's a
2:17:24key now we could argue all day is that
2:17:26the key to the door or not I don't
2:17:27know but if I try it it opens the
2:17:31door that's good enough for me setting
2:17:33aside other issues well let's take a
2:17:35look at this if I take the 2,4 2520 360
2:17:39day years and I apply it from the decree
2:17:41of our
2:17:42exercises I get to the restoration of
2:17:44the nation Israel on May 14th of
2:17:481948 that wild
2:17:51now the servitude of the nation ends
2:17:54with a decree of Cyrus the 220 years
2:17:57brings me to May 14th of 1948 when David
2:17:59Ben grian using ezekiel's Authority
2:18:02declared on international radio the name
2:18:04of the Jewish homeland was Israel right
2:18:07now you say G ja that's pretty wild yes
2:18:09you see there're 70 years but they're
2:18:10368 Years also you take the 6oc plus the
2:18:1469 years that gets you to 537 and if
2:18:17July 23rd 537 was their release then you
2:18:20go through all you get to May 14th of
2:18:221948 well that's maybe just an
2:18:25interesting
2:18:26Coincidence of course the rabbis have an
2:18:28interesting expression they say
2:18:29coincidence is not a kosher word and as
2:18:32Christians we say there's no accidents
2:18:33in God's Kingdom so is this a fit I'm
2:18:34not sure let's see what happens if we
2:18:36take the 2520 years and apply it to the
2:18:39desolations of the city of Jerusalem
2:18:40what happens it comes out to June 7th of
2:18:451967 when the old city of Jerusalem is
2:18:48restored to the nation if you go through
2:18:50the Matic again and uh you end up with
2:18:53June 7th
2:18:551967 now I'm
2:18:58cheating we don't know the exact day
2:19:01that certain things were done we just
2:19:03know the season so the dates I've used
2:19:05back I've backed into but they fit you
2:19:07follow me but I I can't really represent
2:19:11that it's to the exact day because we
2:19:13don't have Precision on on the on on the
2:19:17day that that I consider satisfactory
2:19:20but let's go on one other thing let's
2:19:22shift to today's time we talk when when
2:19:24uh the temple destroyed that of course
2:19:26created a crisis for the Jews because
2:19:28they no longer had a temple which mean
2:19:30they no longer could do
2:19:31sacrifices the Torah says that without
2:19:34the shedding of blood there's no
2:19:35remission of sins they've got a huge
2:19:38problem in Judaism they have no nothing
2:19:40they have no way to deal with sin so
2:19:43they got to redefine their whole situ
2:19:45that's what they did the Council of yam
2:19:46in 90 ad they had to they had to
2:19:48redefine the whole concept of Judaism so
2:19:50it became a Works thing rather than the
2:19:53than than faithfulness to the Torah so
2:19:55they're in a period called the diaspora
2:19:57if somebody says uh show me something in
2:19:59the Bible that's a miracle I'll tell you
2:20:01where you point that's to the
2:20:02Jew here's a group of people that are
2:20:05whose origin they're ups and downs their
2:20:07dispersion and their Rea Gatherings all
2:20:08laid out in advance the diaspora it's a
2:20:12matter of history now it's interesting
2:20:14that in Isaiah 11: 11 God says the
2:20:18following it says it shall come to pass
2:20:20in that day that the Lord shall set his
2:20:23hand again the second time the first
2:20:26time is when he regathered them after
2:20:27the Babylonian captivity the second time
2:20:30I believe is when he weathers them after
2:20:32the diaspora that's G on for almost
2:20:342,000 years she come to pass in that day
2:20:37the Lord shall set his hand again the
2:20:38second time to recover the remnant of
2:20:40his people which shall be left from
2:20:42Assyria from Egypt from pathos from Kush
2:20:45from ilam from shinar from the HTH and
2:20:47from the islands of the sea and and he
2:20:50shall set up an enen for the Nations and
2:20:52shall assemble the outcasts of Israel
2:20:54and gather together the dispersed of
2:20:56Judah from the four corners of the
2:21:00earth it astonishes me to discover that
2:21:04most Christian churches I'm not being
2:21:06Cavalier I would say most Christian
2:21:07churches do not recognize or acknowledge
2:21:10or focus on the destiny of Israel in
2:21:12God's
2:21:13word they have this concept that well
2:21:16they forfeited their promises when they
2:21:17reject the Messiah those promises now
2:21:19somehow fall on the church that
2:21:21unfortunately makes God a liar because
2:21:23those promises are so explicit they're
2:21:25so unconditional it's a it's not a
2:21:26trivial you know difference of View kind
2:21:29of thing it's a very fundamental point
2:21:30of view to understand what's happening
2:21:33you need to understand God's role for
2:21:35Israel five6 of the Bible is about
2:21:38Israel including the New Testament 75
2:21:41references to Israel and 73 verses and
2:21:43it's talking about National
2:21:46Israel there's one verse that some
2:21:48people might quible at but even that if
2:21:49you look at it carefully in the Greek it
2:21:50also refers to National Israel but let's
2:21:52not get into that here the key phrase to
2:21:54me is again the second
2:21:57time these debates should have ended on
2:22:01March 14th of
2:22:021948 when the nation Israel was
2:22:04reestablished in the land yes in
2:22:07unbelief that's exactly the way Ezekiel
2:22:08describes it in Ezekiel 36 and
2:22:1037 but they're there God has God has
2:22:14started to position them for their
2:22:17Manifest Destiny we need to know what
2:22:19that Manifest Destiny is we need to
2:22:21understand the circumstances surround it
2:22:22and that's what we're going to talk
2:22:23about next
2:22:24time God has made an astonishing
2:22:26commitment in Amos 3:7 surely the Lord
2:22:29God will do nothing but he revealeth a
2:22:31secret unto his servants the prophets
2:22:32what God's doing is all there in the
2:22:34scripture if you look for it this
2:22:36astonishing presentation of the Messiah
2:22:38on the donkey writing into Jerusalem he
2:22:40held them accountable
2:22:42for now the prophetic scriptures remind
2:22:45you from last time according to Jay
2:22:46Barton Payne's one view the
2:22:48encyclop encyclopedia prophecy he says
2:22:52there's 8362 predictive verses different
2:22:54Scholars might number them differently
2:22:55but that's certainly a
2:22:57bunch over 1,800 predictions on over 700
2:23:01different matters that's encyclopedia
2:23:04biblical prophecy that's just one
2:23:05Reckoning to at least indicate Bible is
2:23:07about prophecy it's not incidental it's
2:23:08not a coincidence here and there almost
2:23:10every verse you can tag prophetically in
2:23:13some way or another there is no other
2:23:15equivalent on the planet Earth Islam's
2:23:18Quran the hindu's V the Bhagavad Gita
2:23:21The Book of Mormon nostradamus's
2:23:23ambiguous centuries the occultic mediums
2:23:26the New Age spirit guides you name it
2:23:28can't come close none of them will hang
2:23:30their credibility on the 2020 Precision
2:23:33of Prophecy and there's all kinds of
2:23:35themes Israel Jerusalem the temple
2:23:37Babylon Russia or Magog the rise of
2:23:40China the European superstate The
2:23:42ecumenical uh movement that we see
2:23:44starting the global government Trends
2:23:46and the rise of the occult all these
2:23:48things are themes that the Bible talks
2:23:50about they're all being positioned as we
2:23:52speak and here's the challenge of the
2:23:55series you and I are being plunged into
2:23:58a period of time about which the Bible
2:23:59says more than it does about any other
2:24:01period in history including the time
2:24:03that Jesus walked the shores of galile
2:24:05or climbed the mountains of Judea that
2:24:07is a Preposterous statement and if you
2:24:09accept it you flunk what I want you to
2:24:10do is challenge that I want you to
2:24:12challenge that how you going to do that
2:24:13you got to do two things you got to find
2:24:15out what the Bible says about these
2:24:16things not what your favorite teacher
2:24:18don't just parrot the prej of some
2:24:20teacher that you fond of but find out
2:24:23for yourself what the Bible says and
2:24:25then secondly find out what's really
2:24:26going on and uh that's what we're going
2:24:29to be doing our agenda now we've been
2:24:31through prophecy past the next session
2:24:33will be on Prophecy future we'll look at
2:24:35the end time scenario that'll be next
2:24:37time and when we complete that our last
2:24:40session we'll look at the interval from
2:24:41where we
2:24:42are uh to the end times what can we
2:24:44expect what are those issues that occur
2:24:46prior to the end time scenario that we
2:24:49see on our immediate threshold
2:24:51and let be sensitive to the times of the
2:24:53Gentiles fullness of the Gentiles we're
2:24:55going to look very carefully at the 70th
2:24:56week this week that we've uh deferred
2:24:59for the next for the next session and
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2:27:20[Music]
2:27:28well we are now in session three out of
2:27:30four sessions session three is on the
2:27:32end time
2:27:34scenario and our agenda for the four
2:27:36sessions the first one of course was our
2:27:37introduction where we talked about the
2:27:38nature of time and how sure can we be
2:27:40that prophecy is real and then the
2:27:43second session we talked about prophecy
2:27:45past proofs of Prophecy from past
2:27:47history we're now in Prophecy future
2:27:51everybody talks about the end times what
2:27:52do we mean by that and uh the next
2:27:55session will be dealing with the issues
2:27:58between here and the end times but in
2:28:01order to deal with that we really have
2:28:02to have a perspective of what's the end
2:28:03times uh what are they all about now so
2:28:06we're in session three on the end times
2:28:08tonight and we're going to have a number
2:28:10of topics we're going to talk about the
2:28:1270th week of Daniel we talk about 69
2:28:14last time we'll talk about the 70th week
2:28:16why is that term so significant why is
2:28:18so important we'll talk about the the
2:28:20Antichrist he has 33 different titles in
2:28:23the Old Testament 13 in the new but
2:28:24we're going to we we've chosen probably
2:28:26the least descriptive of them all but
2:28:28that's what everybody calls them so I
2:28:29fight it we'll talk about this coming
2:28:31World later we'll talk about the mark of
2:28:33the beast and we'll try to diffuse some
2:28:35of the nonsense that's being floated
2:28:37around we'll talk about his partner the
2:28:40false prophet we'll also talk about this
2:28:43technical thing called the abomination
2:28:44of desolation the very trigger that
2:28:46Jesus himself points to as the key to
2:28:49end time prophecy
2:28:50we'll talk about this thing called the
2:28:52Great Tribulation you hear Christians
2:28:54always talk about the tribulation this
2:28:56the tribulation that what they really
2:28:57mean is the Great Tribulation a very
2:29:00specific period of time with some very
2:29:01specific object objectives we'll talk
2:29:04about this strange idea that Scholars
2:29:07have talked about for centuries the
2:29:09revived Roman Empire and that when you
2:29:12speak of it that way it sounds so quaint
2:29:14and Scholastic or academic and yet as
2:29:16you realize what's going on it's really
2:29:18quite startling and of course we'll talk
2:29:20about Armageddon a term that's become
2:29:22very common in our language meaning many
2:29:25things sort of connotatively but in the
2:29:27Bible it's very specific a very specific
2:29:29very real event that's forthcoming we'll
2:29:31talk about the kings of the East and
2:29:34also we'll talk about something that
2:29:35many Christians may not be aware of the
2:29:37Refuge in Edom what the end the very end
2:29:39time scenario looks like and of course
2:29:41we'll talk about the Watershed issue of
2:29:44them all and that's the Millennium so
2:29:47that's our difficulty tonight every one
2:29:49of these topics ICS we could easily
2:29:51spend more than an hour just summarizing
2:29:53quickly and yet we're going to try to
2:29:56yield a perspective of all of them and
2:29:59as best we can now again in the graphics
2:30:01on the screen we have a little we're
2:30:03going to whenever we speak from the Old
2:30:04Testament we'll use the scroll uh uh
2:30:07Motif and when it's the New Testament
2:30:08we'll use a a a Papyrus type of thing
2:30:11just to make it distinctive so you can
2:30:13be sensitive to that the first thing
2:30:15we're going to talk about is the
2:30:17confidential briefing that Jesus gave
2:30:19for his
2:30:20disciples and uh it's so important that
2:30:23it's recorded in three of the four
2:30:24gospels it's recorded in Matthew 24 Mark
2:30:2713 and Luke 21 we're going to focus on
2:30:30the Matthew account for a couple of
2:30:31reasons it's a little more uh complete
2:30:33and Matthew took shorthand and that's
2:30:35why the discourses are so extensive in
2:30:37Matthew and we that's one reason we tend
2:30:39to lean on that especially in a
2:30:40prophetic fulfillment sense but in
2:30:42Matthew chapter 24 we have this event
2:30:45that because it happened to take place
2:30:47on the Mount of Olives it's sometimes
2:30:49known as the oliv it discourse but in
2:30:51Matthew 24 it opens up he says he sat
2:30:54upon the Mount of Olives the disciples
2:30:56came to him privately saying tell us and
2:30:58a number of things by the way it says
2:31:00disciples here but I think it's Mark
2:31:01that tells us there were four of them
2:31:02Peter James and John and Andrew Peter's
2:31:05brother were the four that came and this
2:31:07is a private confidential briefing where
2:31:09they ask him several questions when
2:31:11shall these things be and what shall be
2:31:13the sign of thy coming and of the end of
2:31:16the world those are three different
2:31:17issues actually the overlap of course
2:31:19but but there's three focuses here the
2:31:22Olivet discourse and Jesus would go on
2:31:24for through Matthew 24 and 25 responding
2:31:27to this inquiry on the part of his
2:31:29disciples Jesus answered and said unto
2:31:31them take heed that no man deceive you
2:31:34it's interesting when you study
2:31:35carefully this passage it opens and
2:31:38closes with a warning not to be deceived
2:31:41so we need to have our guards up there's
2:31:43lots of nonsense floating around in
2:31:44these subjects we want to test
2:31:46everything we can by scripture Jesus
2:31:49goes on he says for many shall come in
2:31:50my name saying I am Christ and shall
2:31:52deceive many and indeed there's all
2:31:55kinds of wouldbe Messiah that have shown
2:31:57up through history he goes on he says
2:31:59and ye shall hear of wars and rumors of
2:32:01wars and see that you not be troubled
2:32:03for all these things must come to pass
2:32:04but the end is not yet for nation shall
2:32:08rise against Nation Kingdom against
2:32:09Kingdom and there shall be famines and
2:32:11pestilences and earthquakes and diverse
2:32:12places all these are the beginning of
2:32:14Sorrows or more precisely the beginning
2:32:16of birth pains slow and int slow at
2:32:19first increasing in in frequency and
2:32:21intensity but I want you to notice this
2:32:23phrase but the end is not yet it's
2:32:27amazing how many prophecy summaries end
2:32:29up emphasizing earthquakes and famines
2:32:32and all these things when these I would
2:32:34put in the category of being non signs
2:32:37we've always had them we have some now
2:32:39they may indeed be increasing but those
2:32:41are not the signs Jesus is building a
2:32:43case he's going to point to a very
2:32:44specific sign that's coming here when
2:32:47you get to verse 15 of Matthew
2:32:5024 Jesus makes a remark that we'd have
2:32:53the tendency to skip over because it
2:32:55sounds so technical but let's look it
2:32:57over verse 15 of Matthew 24 Jesus says
2:32:59when ye therefore shall see the
2:33:03abomination of desolation that's a
2:33:05technical thing will come back to it
2:33:07spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in
2:33:08the Holy place and then in parenthesis
2:33:11it has who so readeth let him understand
2:33:13close parenthesis then let them which be
2:33:15in Judea flee into the mountains and so
2:33:17on there's an event
2:33:20that we're going to explore in a few
2:33:22moments called the abomination of
2:33:23desolation it's a technical term but
2:33:25it's a very precise term and we have a
2:33:27good background on it but Jesus said
2:33:29when you see that spoken of by Daniel
2:33:32the Prophet do you know I love that
2:33:33phrase do you realize that the Lord
2:33:36Jesus Christ has just saved you hours of
2:33:38boring Library research there are all
2:33:41kinds of people that like to attack the
2:33:43Book of Daniel it happens to be the best
2:33:45documented book of the Old Testament but
2:33:47set that aside you don't have to bother
2:33:49you you know that the Book of Daniel is
2:33:50written by Daniel and you knew Daniel is
2:33:52a prophet how do you know Jesus told you
2:33:54so if you believe in Jesus Christ you
2:33:56don't have any problems as who wrote the
2:33:57Book of
2:33:58Daniel if you don't believe in Jesus
2:34:00Christ you got much bigger problems than
2:34:01the authorship of Daniel
2:34:03boy but when you see this thing the abom
2:34:06abomination of desolation stand in the
2:34:08Holy
2:34:09place then there's a parenthesis there
2:34:11who so readeth let him understand how
2:34:14many of you on the screen just now read
2:34:16that with me guys see a your
2:34:17hands I played a dirty trick on you you
2:34:21see you now have an obligation to
2:34:23understand this it's not optional see it
2:34:25says whoo reth let him understand so
2:34:27this is not a technicality for
2:34:30theologians or people writing books on
2:34:32Prophecy this is a challenge for you
2:34:34personally to understand what we're
2:34:36talking about here Jesus points to this
2:34:39particular
2:34:40technicality which in effect is poke
2:34:43poking his finger at Daniel chapter 9
2:34:46the last verse we're going to get there
2:34:48because it's the key to all end time
2:34:49prophecy if you understand that
2:34:50everything fits together if you're
2:34:52confused about that a lot of other
2:34:54things will sound puzzling but this is
2:34:55an event and when this event when he
2:34:57says when you shall see the abomination
2:34:59of desolation then let them which be in
2:35:02Judea not in New York not in California
2:35:04those who are in Judea flee into the
2:35:07mountains let him which is on the
2:35:08housetop not come down to take anything
2:35:10out of his house neither let him which
2:35:13is in the field return back to take his
2:35:14clothes he goes on like this he's in
2:35:17effect saying you're going to split and
2:35:18you split now
2:35:21say then woe unto them that are with
2:35:22child or them that suck in those give
2:35:24suck in those days but pray that your
2:35:27flight be not in the winter neither on
2:35:29the Sabbath day now there's another
2:35:31reminder is this written to
2:35:34Gentiles no it's written to Jews it's
2:35:36written to them who are in Judea the
2:35:38focus of this passage is on the Jews the
2:35:41Jews that are in the land when this
2:35:43event happens in the temple that's one
2:35:45of the reasons we know the temple will
2:35:47be rebuilt when when all this starts
2:35:50we don't know when it's going to be
2:35:51we'll come back to one of the topics but
2:35:53the point is we know the Temple's there
2:35:54because this involves the desecration of
2:35:56that
2:35:57Temple what happens next why do they
2:36:00split why are they running why says
2:36:02Jesus says for then shall be Great
2:36:04Tribulation such as not such as was not
2:36:07since the beginning of the world to this
2:36:09time no nor ever shall be and except
2:36:12those days should be shortened there
2:36:14should no flesh be saved but for the
2:36:15elect sake those days shall be shortened
2:36:18that's a verse 2 is a sobering verse
2:36:21that's a a comment on
2:36:23technology this verse probably didn't
2:36:25have much impact if you were reading it
2:36:26say in the 19th
2:36:28century because there weren't there
2:36:30wasn't a technology to wipe out the
2:36:32whole world today it's a matter of pick
2:36:34your poison there's so
2:36:37many there are tens of thousands of
2:36:40nuclear warheads floating around the
2:36:41landscape many on the black
2:36:43market and uh so this is this is this is
2:36:46a shadow a cloud that hangs over every
2:36:48geopolitical decision the planet Earth
2:36:50today but he says for then shall be
2:36:52Great Tribulation he's actually quoting
2:36:54from Daniel CH 12 and we'll take a look
2:36:56at that
2:36:57shortly this he is pointing in effect
2:37:00from the Abomination desolation Mark
2:37:01he's pointing to the last verse of
2:37:03Daniel chapter 9 now last time we
2:37:05reviewed chapter 9 but to refresh your
2:37:07memory I'll go through it very
2:37:09quickly the last four verses of Daniel 9
2:37:12Daniel 9:24 was the scope of the whole
2:37:13thing then we explored in detail verse
2:37:1625 that is the 69 of these 77s of weeks
2:37:19the 77s of years and we one of the most
2:37:22astonishing passages uh that you'll want
2:37:24to study carefully if you haven't seen
2:37:26the previous
2:37:27session verse 26 deals with an interval
2:37:31after the 69 weeks the 70th week is the
2:37:34subject of verse 27 so we have four
2:37:36verses the scope 69 weeks a a gap this
2:37:41explicit interval between the two
2:37:43between 69 and 70th week the 70th week
2:37:47turns out to be one of the most
2:37:48important
2:37:50aspects of end time prophecy if you
2:37:51understand that everything else will
2:37:53come together remember last time we
2:37:55looked at verse 24 the scope 77s are
2:37:57determined on whom On th people and the
2:37:58holy city not the church the Jews to
2:38:01accomplish six things to finish the
2:38:02transgression to make an end of sins to
2:38:04make reconciliation for iniquity to
2:38:05bring an everlasting righteousness and
2:38:06seal up the vision of the prophecy and
2:38:08to anoint the most holy place without
2:38:11going through the details it's clear
2:38:12these things have not all been
2:38:13accomplished yet so this is part of this
2:38:15at least is yet future indeed it is
2:38:17that's what the 7th week wraps up for us
2:38:19last time we looked at the 69 weeks know
2:38:21that therefore and understand that from
2:38:22the going forth of the Commandment to
2:38:23restore and build Jerusalem unto the
2:38:25Messiah the king shall be seven weeks in
2:38:27three scoring two weeks that's 7 plus 62
2:38:29that is 69 weeks and the street shall be
2:38:31built again and the wall in even
2:38:32troubled times it's from one event to
2:38:35another is a very specific period and
2:38:37last time we went through that how from
2:38:39the Commandment to restore in Jerusalem
2:38:40unto the mashi nagid the Messiah the
2:38:42King was exactly 173,880 days and it
2:38:45turns out in real calendar terms it is
2:38:49Gab ababel told Daniel the exact day
2:38:51that the Messiah would present himself
2:38:52as a king what makes that astonishing is
2:38:56all of this was written down well in
2:38:58advance of the the septu translation
2:39:00into Greek which occurred as a matter of
2:39:03historical record 300 years before the
2:39:06event exciting stuff but uh then we
2:39:10talked about the interval after the 69
2:39:12weeks the 7 plus 62 which verse 25 deals
2:39:15with we have an interval verse 26 we're
2:39:18going to focus we're heading for verse
2:39:1927 the 7th week during that interval we
2:39:22have the the crucifixion the mesiah was
2:39:25karat executed the people of the prince
2:39:27of sh C shall destroy the city in the
2:39:29sanctuary and indeed they did now this
2:39:32is that accounts for 38 years by
2:39:34experience we've discovered that it's
2:39:35actually been the better part of 2,000
2:39:38years but the more you know about the 20
2:39:40verse the verse 27 the 70th week the
2:39:43more you can begin to sense that these
2:39:442,000 year this 2,000 year interval is
2:39:47about over
2:39:49now when we looked at our total timeline
2:39:52going from the creation the fall of Man
2:39:53the flood Abraham The Exodus and so
2:39:55forth um we got that we remember we
2:39:57studied the times of the Gentiles we
2:39:59started with Nebuchadnezzar and we'll
2:40:00conclude with this coming world leader
2:40:01we're going to talk about tonight in
2:40:03between this there's also the church
2:40:05also called the fullness of the Gentiles
2:40:07being called out but there's a period
2:40:10following this called the
2:40:11tribulation and uh that's that's a term
2:40:14used sloppily over over a seven-year
2:40:16period I'll explain what I mean by that
2:40:18when we get into it but we're going to
2:40:19focus on the 70th week and discover it's
2:40:22in two halves first three and a half
2:40:23years last three and a half years and
2:40:25the term Great Tribulation technically
2:40:27focuses on the last three and a half
2:40:28years the tribulation is three and a
2:40:29half years part now the 70th week this
2:40:34last verse verse 27 is the one that
2:40:36Jesus in effect was pointing to it says
2:40:39and he and it's it's the it's a pronoun
2:40:41referring to the previously mentioned
2:40:43person which was the prince that shall
2:40:44come he that is this Prince we'll talk
2:40:46about him too the prince that shall come
2:40:48shall in for Force the Covenant with the
2:40:51many for one week that's the last week
2:40:53of years and in the midst of the week he
2:40:56shall cause the sacrifice the oblation
2:40:58to
2:40:59cease now what that implies apparently
2:41:02is that the Covenant at least in part
2:41:04involves a reestablishing of the temple
2:41:07Services because in the middle of the
2:41:09week he violates his commitment and
2:41:11causes those sacrifices and oblations to
2:41:14cease that's one of the reasons we know
2:41:16that there's going to be a temple
2:41:17rebuilt because this Temple is being
2:41:19desecrated there's much said about that
2:41:21uh in 2 Thessalonians 2 and so
2:41:25forth and then after this there's going
2:41:27to be overspreading of Abominations he
2:41:29shall make a desolate even until the
2:41:30consummation and that determined shall
2:41:32be poured out upon the desolate and it's
2:41:34in this Hebrew that we get the phrase
2:41:36abomination of desolation say gchu what
2:41:39on Earth is that well first of all let's
2:41:43take a look at the words the word
2:41:44abomination in the Bible typically
2:41:46refers of idol worship to worship
2:41:49anything other than the Living God is to
2:41:51him an Abomination that term is used
2:41:53throughout the scripture and more more
2:41:55times than not it's referring to idol
2:41:57worship the abomination of desolation
2:42:00turns out to be the most extreme form of
2:42:04that if you're going to set out to
2:42:07offend God you can you not only set up
2:42:10an idol to be worshiped you put that
2:42:12Idol in the most sacred spot on the
2:42:14planet Earth that means it's in
2:42:16Jerusalem in the temple area in fact in
2:42:18the holy place in fact in the holy of
2:42:21holies that the reason we know so much
2:42:24about it it has happened only once
2:42:25before in history now it's interesting
2:42:28by the way if you're reading the Gospel
2:42:30of John 10th chapter that's a place
2:42:33where Jesus is talking about the Good
2:42:34Shepherd discourse but right in the
2:42:37middle of this discussion about being a
2:42:38good shepherd there's a strange little
2:42:40phrase tucked away in verse 22 because
2:42:43the Holy Spirit there has John mentioned
2:42:45it was at Jerusalem at the Feast of
2:42:47dedication and it was winter
2:42:50now if you're a normal well adjusted
2:42:51student of the Bible you come across
2:42:52something like that you keep reading
2:42:53going on but if you've been to one of my
2:42:56Bible studies you're no longer a normal
2:42:57well adjusted Bible student you remember
2:43:01that I told you that every detail in the
2:43:03scripture is there by deliberate
2:43:05design and so if you're from that
2:43:07background you come across something
2:43:09like this say what on why is that there
2:43:11why did the Holy Spirit want you to know
2:43:14that this was at Jerusalem at the Feast
2:43:16of dedication and it was Winter well you
2:43:19do a little homework you discover
2:43:21Solomon there's only there's only been a
2:43:23couple of temples Solomon's and the
2:43:25subsequent Solomon's Temple was
2:43:27dedicated in the Autumn not in the
2:43:29winter that's First Kings 82
2:43:32zerubbabel's Temple after after they
2:43:33went into captivity they came back from
2:43:35the Babylon they build another Temple
2:43:36under zable that was ultimately
2:43:38dedicated but in Ezra 6 it tells us it
2:43:40was dedicated in the
2:43:41spring but the holy spirit said the
2:43:43Feast of dedication was in the winter
2:43:45what's it talking about well it turns
2:43:47out there was another dedication you
2:43:51won't find it explicitly in the Bible
2:43:53but it was in the history what what some
2:43:55people call the 4 silent years when uh
2:43:58baroka had his revolt and uh correction
2:44:02correction um um I'm getting getting
2:44:06confused um in 167 BC a guy by name
2:44:11Antiochus
2:44:12epiphanies desecrated the temple and
2:44:15that led to the maban Revolt where they
2:44:17threw off the Yol of the solicit Empire
2:44:19on the thir anniversary of that they
2:44:21rededicated the temple and that was on
2:44:23the 25th of kisb it was in the winter
2:44:25and that's what they a little more
2:44:27background remember when we looked at
2:44:29the uh Panorama of history between the
2:44:31Persian Empire and the Roman Empire
2:44:33there's a Greek Empire and there are two
2:44:34events that are very important to each
2:44:36of us to understand obviously that was
2:44:37when the septu translation was uh
2:44:40sponsored by Tommy philadelphus that
2:44:43also as when one of the subsequent
2:44:44rulers in the seusd uh Empire was a guy
2:44:47by name of Antiochus epiphany we need to
2:44:49understand who he was for lots of
2:44:50reasons he reigned from 175 to 164 BC
2:44:54antus IV he called himself epiphanies
2:44:56which meant the exalted one the kids on
2:44:58the street called him Aimes which meant
2:45:00the mad man but anyway he made Reading
2:45:03he wanted to get the Jews upset so he
2:45:04made Torah reading punishable by
2:45:08death um he slaughtered AA on the sacred
2:45:12alar in Jerusalem now if you know how
2:45:14Jews feel about pork if you know how
2:45:16they feel about their sacred Brazen
2:45:18altar in the Temple you can imagine how
2:45:19that went over but he didn't stop there
2:45:23he erected an idol to Zeus in the holy
2:45:26of
2:45:27holies and that was known as the
2:45:29abomination of desolation that's some
2:45:32Jesus this this happened two centuries
2:45:34before Jesus uses that phrase to his
2:45:36disciples and because of its historical
2:45:38reference we know a lot about it it
2:45:40happened once before now that led of
2:45:42course to the maban Revolt it took them
2:45:44three years but they threw off the Yol
2:45:47of the what was the the remnants of of
2:45:49the Greek Empire they rededicated the
2:45:51temple they took everything that the
2:45:52Greeks had contaminated destroyed them
2:45:54made new ones and they rededicated the
2:45:56temple on the 25th of Kev by the way
2:45:58that happens to be antioch's epiphany's
2:46:00birthday he desecrated on his birthday
2:46:01and three years later on his birthday
2:46:03they rededicated and that is celebrated
2:46:05to this day as
2:46:07Hanukkah like most holidays they also
2:46:09are surrounded by other Legends and
2:46:11colorful things but the real point of
2:46:12Hanukkah is to celebrate the
2:46:14rededication of the temple uh in 165 BC
2:46:18what's interesting about that is that
2:46:21Hanukkah is validated by the holy spirit
2:46:24in John the Gospel of John why why did
2:46:27the Holy Spirit bother to link that in
2:46:30our understanding so we understand what
2:46:31the Abomination desolation is all about
2:46:34now the 70th week is defined by this
2:46:38coming world leader enforcing a covenant
2:46:40for seven years I want you to notice
2:46:43what defines the 70th week many people
2:46:45are confused by that what the text says
2:46:47he shall enforce the C with the many it
2:46:50involves Israel it may involve the whole
2:46:53world that can that the the many is an
2:46:55idiom for Israel it also can be much
2:46:57broader than that but in the middle of
2:47:00that week of
2:47:01years he sets up the abomination of
2:47:04desolation what actually happens Paul
2:47:06tells us in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2
2:47:08that he actually sets himself up to be
2:47:11worshiped puts an image of himself in
2:47:12the holy of
2:47:13holies and it's that event that Jesus
2:47:17says that let them which be in Judea
2:47:19flee like right now he says something
2:47:23very strange he said let
2:47:25them those who are they when you he says
2:47:28when you shall see the abomination of
2:47:30desolation how can they see something
2:47:33they're out in a field or in their home
2:47:34or wherever how can they see something
2:47:37that's going on inside the temple in
2:47:39fact in the holy of
2:47:40holies on CNN of course and I'm not
2:47:44being flipping I'm serious in other
2:47:46words it's a major event
2:47:49when that occurs everyone that's a
2:47:51Believer will recognize it as a trigger
2:47:53and what do they do they split right now
2:47:56and I'll tell you where they go in a
2:47:56little while but this
2:47:59event punctuates the seven-year period
2:48:03and the from the abomination of
2:48:05desolation to the end of that uh
2:48:07seven-year period is defined by Daniel
2:48:11in chapter 12 and that Jesus quotes as
2:48:14the Great Tribulation where does it get
2:48:16its name from Jesus Christ where does he
2:48:17get it in a in fact quoting from Daniel
2:48:2012 now it's
2:48:22interesting this 7-year period that we
2:48:25call the 70th week of Daniel is the most
2:48:28documented period of time in the entire
2:48:30Bible it's called seven years one place
2:48:33it's split into two three and a half
2:48:34year periods and each half is called
2:48:37three and a half years 42 months 1260
2:48:41days the Holy Spirit did everything but
2:48:43put it in nanoseconds for you okay and
2:48:46so the Great Tribulation
2:48:49remember what Jesus said then shall be
2:48:51Great Tribulation such as not since the
2:48:52beginning of the world to this time no
2:48:54ever shall be you know what's disturbing
2:48:57about
2:48:58that that means it's going to be worse
2:49:00than the Holocaust in
2:49:02Europe you see signs sometimes on Jewish
2:49:05cars you know never
2:49:07again I have bad news for them the first
2:49:10Holocaust in Europe took one Jew out of
2:49:12three Zechariah tells us the next one's
2:49:14going to take two out of
2:49:16three and Jesus says except those days
2:49:18should be shorten there should no flesh
2:49:19be saved but for the elect sake those
2:49:21that are his chosen at that time those
2:49:23days shall be
2:49:25shortened he is quoting in effect from
2:49:27the Old Testament and by the way the Old
2:49:29Testament uses the term in in Jeremiah
2:49:3230:7 the time of Jacob's
2:49:35trouble that's a helpful phrase because
2:49:37it reminds us what the focus the
2:49:39tribulation will be worldwide and
2:49:40everybody's going to have a tough time
2:49:41we'll see how tough in a minute but the
2:49:44primary focus from God's point of view
2:49:45is on Israel strangely enough in Daniel
2:49:49chapter 12 it opens up it says at that
2:49:51time shall Michael the Archangel stand
2:49:54up the great Prince which standeth for
2:49:55the children of thy people and there
2:49:57shall be a time of trouble such as never
2:49:59was since there was a nation even at
2:50:00that same time and at that time thy
2:50:03people shall be delivered everyone that
2:50:04shall be found written in the book it
2:50:06goes
2:50:07on there is a passage that tells us the
2:50:12purpose of it it's in Hosea 5:15 where
2:50:15God says I will go and return to my
2:50:18place
2:50:19till they acknowledge their offense and
2:50:20seek my face in their Affliction they
2:50:22will seek me
2:50:24earnestly that's a strange thing for God
2:50:26to say he says I will go and return to
2:50:27my place in order to do that he must
2:50:29have left it what's it referring to the
2:50:32Messiah returning and he will uh uh
2:50:36until what every time you see an until
2:50:37it's a very key word until they
2:50:39acknowledge their offense that's
2:50:41singular and specific and seek my face
2:50:44in their Affliction they will seek me
2:50:46earnestly and a prerequisite condition
2:50:48to the second coming is for the remnant
2:50:50Believers in Israel to petition him to
2:50:52return we'll talk more about that at the
2:50:54end here well we've talked about this
2:50:57coming world
2:50:58leader sometimes called the man of sin
2:51:02also called The Seed of the serpent we
2:51:03open the whole study in Prophecy talking
2:51:05about the seed of the woman the Messiah
2:51:07but that same verse in Genesis 3:15 has
2:51:10speaks of another seed also the seed of
2:51:12the serpant there are over 33 specific
2:51:15Illusions in the Old Testament to this
2:51:17coming leader
2:51:19another one this I'm just going to
2:51:20select a few to give you a flavor
2:51:22there's he's called the idol Shepherd in
2:51:24Zechariah 11 we'll look at that in a
2:51:26moment he's called the little horn in
2:51:28Daniel 7 and then in the vision of
2:51:30Daniel 8 again there's a little horn
2:51:32that has that is in part an illusion to
2:51:34him in Daniel 9:26 we saw a reference to
2:51:37the prince that shall
2:51:39come in Daniel 11 he's called the
2:51:41willful King this is just a handful from
2:51:43the 33 illusions of the Old Testament in
2:51:46the New Testament there are 13 at least
2:51:48illusions
2:51:49he's called the beast in Revelation 11
2:51:52and also in Revelation
2:51:5313 he has a sidekick a second beast that
2:51:56really goes by the name the false
2:51:57prophet we'll look at him shortly it's
2:52:00really a duet if you
2:52:02will the Apostle John uses the phase
2:52:05Antichrist in his Epistles he's actually
2:52:07speaking of the spirit of antichrist
2:52:09it's interesting that John who wrote the
2:52:10Book of Revelation did not use that term
2:52:12in the Book of Revelation but anyway the
2:52:14word Antichrist is an unfortunate label
2:52:16because it's misunderstood we think it's
2:52:18anti Christ in the sense that he's
2:52:19against Christ indeed he is but that's
2:52:21not what the Greek term really intends
2:52:23to convey it really means pseudo Christ
2:52:26Antichrist is one instead of Christ and
2:52:29uh but in any case that's another title
2:52:31it's the one that seems to stick in most
2:52:32of the literature he's also called the
2:52:34Lawless one in 2 Thessalonians 2 the man
2:52:36of sin in 2 Thessalonians 2 Jesus said
2:52:39he's one will come in his I've come in
2:52:41my father's name you receive you not
2:52:42another will come in his own name and
2:52:43him you will receive and uh uh that's
2:52:46another illusion he's called the son of
2:52:48prediction that terms used of only two
2:52:49people in the scripture uh Satan's man
2:52:52and also Judas there are even some
2:52:54Scholars that think he'll be somehow
2:52:56Judas reincarnated I don't but that's
2:52:58that's a view that floats around what
2:53:00are his characteristics well we know
2:53:02he's an intellectual genius in Daniel 78
2:53:04Ezekiel 28 and elsewhere he's an
2:53:06incredibly persuasive orator Daniel 7
2:53:10and Revelation 13 he's a shrewd
2:53:12politician by peace he will destroy many
2:53:15the scripture says in Daniel 8 he's a
2:53:18anal genius he's going to be do
2:53:21incomparable things he'd be a very
2:53:23forceful military later later he rises
2:53:25to power on finance and peacemaking but
2:53:28he becomes militarily incredibly
2:53:30powerful who can make war with him the
2:53:31scripture says he's a powerful organizer
2:53:34obviously he's a unifying religious Guru
2:53:36we'll talk a little bit about that
2:53:39because he he gets everyone to worship
2:53:42Him above all that is called God that
2:53:46includes Allah fill in the blank with
2:53:48whatever you
2:53:49like and uh there's lots of other verses
2:53:52you we could spend a lot of time on him
2:53:54a lot of debate about is he a Jew or a
2:53:55gentile the leader is certainly going to
2:53:57be the son of Satan from Genesis 3:15
2:53:59Isaiah 27 Ezekiel 28 Revelation 13 but
2:54:02some believe that the leader will be a
2:54:04Jew why because Ezekiel 21 Ezekiel 28
2:54:07he's apparently of the circumcision
2:54:09Daniel
2:54:1011 uh similar kind of Illusion in John
2:54:145:43 it says it'll be another will come
2:54:16in his own name the word in the Greek is
2:54:17alos not heteros which implies of the
2:54:20same kind there's two and that also
2:54:22implies a Jew not a gentile and of
2:54:24course he's received by Israel which is
2:54:26also implies that he's he's received as
2:54:28a messiah some believe that it'll be a
2:54:30gentile because of the parallel with
2:54:32Titus vpan and and a number of other
2:54:34reasons there's a good good case can
2:54:36made that he's a gentile political ruler
2:54:38from Europe but see everybody forgets
2:54:40they're two
2:54:41players there's two guys it's a duet in
2:54:44Revelation 13 the first of the two
2:54:46beasts that are described in Revelation
2:54:4813
2:54:49John says I stood upon the sand of the
2:54:50sea and saw a a beast rise up out of the
2:54:52sea having seven heads and 10 horns and
2:54:55upon his horns 10 crowns and upon his
2:54:58heads the name of
2:55:00blasphemy and the Beast which I saw was
2:55:02like unto a leopard his feet were like
2:55:04as the feet of a bear and his mouth as
2:55:05the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave
2:55:07him his power his seat and his great
2:55:08Authority the dragon has previously been
2:55:10identified in the previous chapter as
2:55:11the S as a idiom for Satan you may
2:55:14recognize the leopard the bear and the
2:55:17lion as elements of the visions of
2:55:19Daniel chapter 2 so you can begin to tie
2:55:22those things together John continues
2:55:24says I saw one of his heads as it were
2:55:26wounded to the death and his deadly
2:55:28wound was healed and all the world
2:55:30wondered after the Beast was he really
2:55:33killed and came to back to life probably
2:55:34not probably a counterfeit but the world
2:55:36doesn't know
2:55:37that now it's interesting that if we
2:55:41look in the Old Testament in Zechariah
2:55:4311:17 we have the only physical
2:55:45description of him in the Bible says woe
2:55:48to the idol Shepherd that leaveth the
2:55:50flock there again it sounds like he was
2:55:52Jewish the sword shall be upon his arm
2:55:55and upon his right eye his arm shall be
2:55:58clean dried up and his right eye shall
2:55:59be utterly
2:56:01darkened what does that mean we're not
2:56:03sure but here's the
2:56:04conjecture is that he suffers a vestage
2:56:07of the head wound that was healed that's
2:56:10just a conjecture but it's a reasonable
2:56:12one and why is that important well we'll
2:56:13see
2:56:14shortly in Revelation 13 it continues to
2:56:18describe a second character one that's
2:56:21called a second beast I beheld another
2:56:23Beast coming up out of the earth and he
2:56:24had two horns like a lamb spoke as a
2:56:27dragon in other words he had the
2:56:28authority of a lamb but he had the uh
2:56:31the he spoke from Satan and he exercises
2:56:34all the power of the first Beast before
2:56:36him and causes the Earth and them which
2:56:39dwell therein to worship the first Beast
2:56:41whose deadly wound was healed this head
2:56:45wound that is healed serves as an
2:56:48identity a number of places throughout
2:56:50the scriptures it's mentioned here in
2:56:52earlier but it's again and again to
2:56:54distinguish between these two guys the
2:56:56first guy is the world leader that had
2:56:58the head wound and healed his sidekick
2:57:00is a promoter a prophet a priest
2:57:03whatever you want to call him uh that
2:57:05causes the world to worship His leader
2:57:09many scholars like to speak of this as a
2:57:11satanic Trinity where Satan is in the
2:57:14role self-appointed role of trying to be
2:57:16God that the world leader is sort of his
2:57:19Messiah and that the false prophet is in
2:57:22effect his holy spirit so to speak
2:57:24that's that's a contrivance of some
2:57:25Scholars you'll hear them speak of that
2:57:27it's like a trinity with Satan being the
2:57:30the you know the the key guy but in
2:57:33Revelation 13 continues and he deceiveth
2:57:35them that dwell on the Earth by means of
2:57:37those Miracles which he had the power to
2:57:38do in the sight of the first Beast
2:57:39saying to them that dwell on the earth
2:57:41that they should make an image to the
2:57:42Beast which had the wound by a sword and
2:57:44did live and he had the power to give
2:57:47life unto the image of the Beast that
2:57:49the image of the Beast should both speak
2:57:51and cause that as many as would not
2:57:53worship the image of the Beast should be
2:57:56killed now we can spend a lot of waste a
2:57:58lot of time conjecturing what kind of
2:57:59technology is being used here all kinds
2:58:02of people have different conjectures but
2:58:03the point is the second guy causes this
2:58:07Beast to have the ability to kill those
2:58:10that don't worship so in this case
2:58:12you're going to have forced worship but
2:58:13it goes on what else he
2:58:16does he causeth all all both small and
2:58:19great rich and poor free and bond to
2:58:22receive a mark in their right hand or in
2:58:25their foreheads that no man might buy or
2:58:28sell save he that hath a Mark or the
2:58:29name of the Beast or the number of his
2:58:31name and we have the most well-known
2:58:34verse in the scripture people who know
2:58:35nothing else about the Bible all know
2:58:36about verse 1318 here is wisdom let him
2:58:39that hath understanding count the number
2:58:41of the Beast for it is a number of a man
2:58:44and his number is 6003 score and six
2:58:49now this of course has led to all kinds
2:58:51of interesting conjectures the
2:58:53666 the word Christos Christ in the
2:58:57Greek is they take the first and last
2:59:00letters and then you put this funny
2:59:02looking Greek letter between them and
2:59:05you have geometrically this is the way
2:59:08it is actually in the text you have the
2:59:10the U 600 the the the the the thing that
2:59:15looks like an X is a is has a value All
2:59:18Greek all Hebrew Hebrew and Greek are
2:59:20unique in the languages that every
2:59:22letter in the alphabet has a numerical
2:59:23value and around that you can play all
2:59:24kinds of games of course in those two
2:59:26languages not other languages Latin has
2:59:28only six of those in in 22 the 22
2:59:31letters plus the five final forms in
2:59:33Hebrew all have numerical values and 24
2:59:35letters in the Greek all have numerical
2:59:36values if you take the Greek first and
2:59:38last letter of Christos it's 6 and6 and
2:59:41that you add the little thing looks like
2:59:43a serpent and a 60 and it adds up to 666
2:59:46so that's where that's you can start
2:59:48playing with this all kinds of people
2:59:50have been able to Pro you can prove
2:59:51anybody fits the 66 if you try hard
2:59:54enough there's an expression in the
2:59:55computer industry if you torture the
2:59:57data long enough it'll confess to
2:59:59anything but we're talking here about
3:00:01the Antichrist which means pseudo Christ
3:00:04now everybody gets upset about numbers
3:00:07there are many people pointing to
3:00:09barcodes for an example bar some of the
3:00:11barcodes have six as a separator each
3:00:14end in the middle and so that becomes a
3:00:16666 and people get excited about that
3:00:19they also have a technology where you
3:00:21can have insertable chips if you're in
3:00:23Special Ops so the satellites know where
3:00:25you are they
3:00:26can they have for pets and livestock and
3:00:29other things these Technologies are
3:00:31rampant people get all concerned about
3:00:33debit cards and credit cards and so
3:00:35forth and there's no question about the
3:00:37fact that electronic funds transfer will
3:00:39Empower a political leader someday to
3:00:41have enormous control but that's not
3:00:44what this is all about what does he use
3:00:46that control for it's not our number our
3:00:49pin number that's the issue it's his
3:00:51identity that's the issue everybody
3:00:54overlooks that it's his number not our
3:00:55number his number and name that is
3:00:58critical the critical identity issue yes
3:01:00you won't have a valid uh uh identity
3:01:03card unless you're worshiping him but
3:01:05the the thing that becomes a forever
3:01:08barrier to ever being saved is to swear
3:01:10allegiance to him and it's interesting
3:01:14by the way that they take the identity
3:01:16if we go back here
3:01:20I meant to get another slide on that
3:01:22where do they take their identity in
3:01:24their right hand or in their
3:01:27foreheads what's suggestive here is that
3:01:30they're deliberately identifying with
3:01:32the leader who apparently has one eye
3:01:34darkened and one hand withered it's his
3:01:37ident it's allegiance to him that is the
3:01:40death nail to one's future and
3:01:44so uh so much for the 666 there's much
3:01:47being written on that but we
3:01:49will move on here the times of the
3:01:51Gentiles we talked a little bit about
3:01:53that last time but I want to close the
3:01:55loop on that a little bit we talked
3:01:56about the dream that Nebuchadnezzar neb
3:01:59excuse me Nebuchadnezzar had in Daniel
3:02:01chapter 2 How It Was head of gold silver
3:02:04brass iron iron mixed with clay and how
3:02:07that represented Babylon Persia Greece
3:02:10and then Rome in two phases what we
3:02:12didn't get to is Daniel chapter 7 where
3:02:15and everybody recognizes that there's
3:02:17four Empires here gold silver brass and
3:02:19then iron but the iron has a second
3:02:20phase where iron mixed with Clay well in
3:02:23Daniel chapter 7 there's a totally
3:02:25different set of idioms used Daniel 2
3:02:28was given to man Nebuchadnezzar and it
3:02:30presents the history of Empires as
3:02:32bright shiny Metals in Daniel 7 God
3:02:35gives Daniel a series of Visions from
3:02:37God's point of view and he sees those
3:02:39same Empire same Empires as a series of
3:02:42voracious beasts a winged lion a bear on
3:02:45one side a leopard a wing actually and
3:02:48uh then a terrible Beast he can't when
3:02:50he gets down to the fourth one he can't
3:02:52even find an animal to liken it to he
3:02:54just calls it the great and terrible
3:02:55beast and that one goes into a phase
3:02:58with 10 heads now um again we have uh
3:03:03Babylon Persia Greece and Rome portrayed
3:03:05there and Daniel 7 is followed by Daniel
3:03:088 which has details of uh Persia being
3:03:11conquered by Greece and so forth and and
3:03:13it's amazing as you get into that but
3:03:14let's us move on we looked at Roman the
3:03:17Roman Empire phase one where emerged in
3:03:1968 BC and Julius Caesar was assassinated
3:03:23and battle back to him then Nero
3:03:26persecutions deian breaks it into two
3:03:28two legs presumably Constantine then
3:03:30moves the capital of Byzantium but about
3:03:33476 ad it breaks into pieces and each of
3:03:36those pieces has had its era if you will
3:03:40the Dutch the French Germans the British
3:03:43the the span Spanish they all had their
3:03:45day in the Sun so to speak but none of
3:03:47them establishing reestablishing the
3:03:49Empire despite their attempts to do so
3:03:53well one of the questions that are on
3:03:55our Horizon today is this empire being
3:04:00reborn a European superstate and we've
3:04:03we have briefing each one of the topics
3:04:05by the way we have briefings on it two
3:04:06tapes plus notes so I'm just going to
3:04:08try to give you the highlights here the
3:04:09new Europe back in 1951 they signed the
3:04:12Treaty of Paris creating the European
3:04:14coal and Steel Community it was a great
3:04:16model it worked well so in 1957 they
3:04:19formed two more trees of Ro in Rome the
3:04:21eec and the eaec the atomic energy
3:04:24community in March in the next year they
3:04:27formed a European Parliament that was
3:04:29many people didn't even realize this was
3:04:30going on in 1959 three of the six
3:04:33countries involved merged to form the
3:04:36beneli group Belgium Netherland and
3:04:38Luxembourg in ' 67 an event occurred
3:04:41that maybe people many people didn't
3:04:42notice at the time the eec the European
3:04:44economic Community the eonic call Steel
3:04:47Community and the atomic energy
3:04:48Community all merged they had they had a
3:04:50commission an executive branch that
3:04:52merged and the same Council of same Six
3:04:56Nations formed the Council of ministers
3:04:59in 73 they added Denmark Ireland the UK
3:05:01now they're nine the original six plus
3:05:04three more in 1981 Greece joins now
3:05:07there were 10 and everybody got excited
3:05:08o there's 10 Nations now see it didn't
3:05:11the scripture didn't say that there's
3:05:12going to be 10 pieces come together
3:05:13there's going to be an Empire and it's
3:05:15going to end up having 10 major parts
3:05:17but does
3:05:18we're getting ahead of ourselves a
3:05:19little
3:05:211986 Spain and Portugal joined now
3:05:23they're 12 Germany unified then in
3:05:25November the massat masteris treaty was
3:05:27signed and that's more important than
3:05:28the Treaty of Rome as I come to Austria
3:05:31Sweden and Finland joined now they're 15
3:05:32that broke the model so people went home
3:05:34and got away from Daniel you must be
3:05:35something else going on then 1999 we had
3:05:38the Euro introduced now one of the
3:05:40questions is to recognizes the Masters
3:05:42treaty obsoleted eclipsed replaced the
3:05:45Treaty of Rome got so much public uh
3:05:48publicity what the Master's treaty lays
3:05:51out for us is a centralized European
3:05:54superstate with a common foreign policy
3:05:56a common military a common currency and
3:05:59common
3:06:01Judiciary and what's exciting about this
3:06:03it's economic potential is larger than
3:06:05the United States potential isn't there
3:06:07yet they got a lot overhead they got
3:06:09they're committed to a socialistic model
3:06:11is it it is interesting to see the
3:06:13emblem of the European Parliament which
3:06:15is a woman writing a beast she got a cup
3:06:17in her hand land and the Beast is on
3:06:19Seven Hills kind of interesting for
3:06:21those that like to look at models and
3:06:23things but don't get too excited that's
3:06:24not the biblical model it's supposed to
3:06:26be oopa writing Zeus whose disguise is a
3:06:28and he's not a Scarlet Beast he's a
3:06:29white Beast so I wouldn't carry too far
3:06:32but we clearly are on a tide towards
3:06:34World Government that's part of what
3:06:36we're seeing we have the whole dream is
3:06:39a World Without
3:06:40Borders the end of the independent
3:06:43nation
3:06:44state the multiculturalism is in as you
3:06:47all we we've talked a lot about that I
3:06:49don't have to elaborate on this they're
3:06:51driving towards a centralized social
3:06:52socialistic government which of course
3:06:54is a Prelude to
3:06:56tyranny anyone that loves Freedom sees
3:06:58all this as a gigantic threat the
3:07:00independent nation state is the greatest
3:07:01protection of Freedom where would the
3:07:02Jews have gone if there hadn't been in
3:07:05America or
3:07:07wherever what are the forcing functions
3:07:09to make sure this happens there are two
3:07:10at least nuclear proliferation it's the
3:07:13only way to police a global world where
3:07:16everyone has the ability to wipe out
3:07:17everybody El else and the other cause
3:07:19celeb which will drive all this home
3:07:21will be
3:07:22terrorism that's obviously not a
3:07:24regional problem it's a global problem
3:07:26and we can see these the the the uh you
3:07:29can't win a war that you don't know who
3:07:30the enemy is and they have no idea who
3:07:33the enemy is all the propaganda you see
3:07:37notwithstanding so the New World Order
3:07:39issue is coming now while all this is
3:07:41going on we also see an ecumenical
3:07:44religion the scripture calls for a one
3:07:47world religion as well as a political
3:07:49leadership and biblical Christianity
3:07:52throughout the world is getting increas
3:07:53increasingly incor Politically Incorrect
3:07:56the Vatican is positioning for Global
3:07:58Leadership here we have a picture of the
3:08:00Pope kissing the
3:08:02Quran and if you want to understand
3:08:04church history we encourage you to get
3:08:06Dave Hunt's book a woman rides the Beast
3:08:08or take get take a look at our Dave and
3:08:10I did a briefing package called the
3:08:11kingdom of blood that will give you will
3:08:13startle you if you haven't been exposed
3:08:14to what really happened in the in the
3:08:16thousand- year history in
3:08:18Europe we took a a refresher on Daniel 2
3:08:21and7 but there's one thing we didn't
3:08:23touch on that I want to include we
3:08:25didn't talk about the iron plus clay
3:08:27this fourth Empire is the iron Empire
3:08:30regathered again but uh it has a
3:08:34distinctive in Daniel 2 and that is iron
3:08:36mixed with clay and it's amazing I
3:08:39taught this for 30 years as a Bible
3:08:41teacher taking the usual conservative
3:08:43position on this um I never read care YY
3:08:47enough Daniel 2:43 Daniel explains what
3:08:51the myy clay is in Daniel
3:08:542:43 he says and whereas thou sawest the
3:08:56iron mixed with myy Clay Meer by the way
3:08:59it's all in Aramaic not Hebrew Meer is
3:09:02dust myy Clay is clay made from dust so
3:09:06dust idiomatically speaks of death so
3:09:08these are The Walking Dead
3:09:10apparently whereas thou sawest iron
3:09:12mixed with myy Clay he then shifts to a
3:09:16personal pronoun
3:09:18they shall mingle themselves with the
3:09:20seed of
3:09:21men but they shall not cleave to one
3:09:23another even as iron is not mixed with
3:09:25clay in order for they shall mingle
3:09:27themselves with the seed of men to make
3:09:29logical sense that they have to be
3:09:31something other than the seed of
3:09:34men grammatically see the they is
3:09:36something other than the seed of men
3:09:39well wow what does that mean well if you
3:09:41come to this verse after after having
3:09:43studied carefully Genesis chapter 6 you
3:09:45suspect gee could these be Nephilim
3:09:47again
3:09:48Jesus made a remark that implied we
3:09:49could expect them again as the days of
3:09:51no we're sure shall the days of the
3:09:53coming of the son of man be or are they
3:09:56clones with genetic engineering going on
3:09:58are there going to be clones will the
3:10:00Clones be first class
3:10:02citizens can clones be saved I don't
3:10:04think so I think they're the refaim
3:10:06there's a whole study you can get into
3:10:07if you want to get into the return on
3:10:09the Nephilim or you want to get into the
3:10:10biotech possibilities here there
3:10:12briefings for those well let's get to
3:10:14the big one
3:10:16Armageddon Revelation 16:16 says he
3:10:18gathered them together into a place
3:10:20called in the Hebrew tongue harmageddon
3:10:22and of course what that really it's har
3:10:24meaning Mountain har megiddo or tell or
3:10:26Mount megiddo is what it's talking about
3:10:29but the main point is this is the
3:10:31climactic
3:10:32confrontation that ends the times of the
3:10:36Gentiles it's going to be interrupted by
3:10:38the Lord Jesus Christ where he sets up
3:10:40his own kingdom now if we take a look at
3:10:42the Earth and we start zeroing in on the
3:10:44earth into the Middle East we get into
3:10:47the area of Israel and so forth and we
3:10:49find a there's a region here that you'll
3:10:52recognize Lebanon to the north Syria to
3:10:54the north uh East Jordan to the east
3:10:58place called Israel with Jerusalem Tel
3:11:00Aviv and and as we move into the up just
3:11:03just south east of hia which is one of
3:11:07the two major Harbors we have hia down
3:11:09there and ashdod are the two major
3:11:11Harbors Tel Aviv of course has the major
3:11:12airport one of the largest cities but
3:11:14just southeast of hia is a place called
3:11:17megiddo there's Mount Carmel there a
3:11:19little mountain range and there's
3:11:20there's megiddo and let's take a close
3:11:22look at megiddo there is it overlooks
3:11:25it's a tell this actually goes I think
3:11:27over 20 layers of civilizations under it
3:11:29it's very interesting place to visit for
3:11:30lots of reasons but one of the main
3:11:32reasons you go up there is go the top
3:11:33and you look at the Valley from one end
3:11:35to the other you look you're overlooking
3:11:38the valley of
3:11:39Jezreel and this is the scene of the
3:11:43final world conflict and um now across
3:11:48the valley if you have Bakers if you
3:11:52look across the valley up on the other
3:11:54side is a place called
3:11:56Nazareth one of the interesting things
3:11:58to ponder as you visit there imagine
3:12:02Jesus growing up in Nazareth overlooking
3:12:05this
3:12:06Valley I don't know where he came into
3:12:08his full knowledge most people suspect
3:12:10it was at his baptism in the Jordan when
3:12:12he started his ministry but um you
3:12:14wonder if he
3:12:17uh understood as a child the
3:12:20significance of the landscape he was
3:12:21watching that he was growing up and that
3:12:22that would be the the scene for the
3:12:24final end and of course obviously this
3:12:26is where actually you could argue that
3:12:29there is no such thing as a battle of
3:12:30Armageddon in a sense because it's not
3:12:32over armagedon they're really after
3:12:34Jerusalem Armageddon is to Jerusalem
3:12:36what what uh England was to Normandy
3:12:39it's a staging staging ground but we do
3:12:42know that the blood will go to the
3:12:43horses bridles it's going to be tough
3:12:46time how does it happen well there's a
3:12:48European Confederacy call him the
3:12:49willful King if you will it's what
3:12:51Daniel does in Daniel chap 11 he gets
3:12:54attacked on successfully by King of the
3:12:56South puts him down pretty quickly king
3:12:58of North gets into the act and he's
3:12:59handling both pretty well until he gets
3:13:02shook up because the way of the kings of
3:13:05the East enter the action and this of
3:13:08course will all be interrupted by the
3:13:09Lord Jesus Christ but this rise of China
3:13:13is part of the picture the kings of the
3:13:14East it's interesting that in Isaiah 40
3:13:179 we have a reference to them behold
3:13:19these shall come from Far Lo these from
3:13:21the north these from the west and these
3:13:23that is from the east from the land of c
3:13:25and the word cam there is the word from
3:13:26which China gets its name and uh we also
3:13:31find the reference in Revelation 16 the
3:13:33sixth Angel poured out his vial upon the
3:13:34great river Euphrates that the water
3:13:36thereof was dried up that the way of the
3:13:38kings of the East might be prepared and
3:13:40here we again we have the kings of the
3:13:42East now it's really interesting I won't
3:13:45take a lot of time to to talked tonight
3:13:47about the rise of China as the
3:13:49superpower but it's very possible the
3:13:52Chinese believe that they have that they
3:13:54will they have a destiny to be the
3:13:55number one power on the planet Earth
3:13:57it's interesting that if you look at the
3:13:59ancient empires that went from you know
3:14:02Mesopotamia Iran then to Greece then to
3:14:05Rome and then the 16th 17th centuries is
3:14:08really the era of Northern Europe but
3:14:10the power centroid in the 20th century
3:14:12moves to the United States the United
3:14:13States very much was the is was
3:14:16considered the uh
3:14:17the the 20 the 20th century was called
3:14:20the American Century by Henry loose back
3:14:22in 1941 and very much it was but it
3:14:25doesn't stop there the power centroid
3:14:27apparently is going to be shifting
3:14:28Eastward as China Rises to be a
3:14:31superpower and uh they're growing at a
3:14:33at a faster rate than the US is and
3:14:35incredible incredible resources
3:14:37potential resources but it's not going
3:14:39to end there either from China of course
3:14:41it's going to migrate back to the Middle
3:14:42East where it all started and that's
3:14:44where we have the big climax as the
3:14:47kings of the East enter
3:14:49Armageddon there's also part of the
3:14:51scenario I should talk about that often
3:14:53doesn't get covered in many prophecy
3:14:54books and that's the Refuge in
3:14:56Edom we have uh this back to the Middle
3:14:59East we have Jerusalem and we have the
3:15:01forces coming down from the the valley
3:15:05of Jezreel against Jerusalem but
3:15:07remember what Jesus said then let them
3:15:09which be in Judea flee unto the
3:15:12mountains where are the mountains well
3:15:13it turns out they're down in Petra and
3:15:16uh
3:15:17when they get down in Petra you discover
3:15:19that Isaiah 63 that they uh they finally
3:15:23there acknowledge their offense they
3:15:25petition the Lord Jesus Christ to come
3:15:27their Messiah to come and you find his
3:15:29his
3:15:30bloodstained embattlement in Isaiah 63
3:15:34who is this that Cometh From Edom with
3:15:35dyed garments from bazra meaning bazra
3:15:38being Sheepfold same as petrius this
3:15:41that is glorious in his apparel
3:15:42traveling in the greatness of his
3:15:43strength I speak in righteousness Mighty
3:15:45to say and in Mercy
3:15:48now after defeating their enemies of the
3:15:51remnant that the remnant of Believers
3:15:53that have flown down a Petra he will
3:15:54return to Mount of Olives and his feet
3:15:57shall stand at that day upon the Mount
3:15:58of Olives which is before Jerusalem on
3:16:00the East and the Mount of Olives shall
3:16:01cleave in the midst thereof toward the
3:16:03East and toward the west there'll be a
3:16:04valley and so
3:16:05forth so that's at least one profile
3:16:08that uh ties together a number of the
3:16:11Old Testament passages in terms of what
3:16:13happens at the end now this leads what
3:16:15happens then he of course course
3:16:18um ends the the arm Armageddon battle
3:16:21what does he do he sets up his kingdom
3:16:23and this brings us to the Watershed
3:16:26issue in Prophecy all the things we've
3:16:29talked about you have good Scholars that
3:16:30have slightly different perspectives and
3:16:32that's fine but there is an issue called
3:16:34the Millennium it gets that name because
3:16:36there's a specific part of it that's
3:16:381,000 years long according to Revelation
3:16:40chapter
3:16:4120 but it's astonishing to discover this
3:16:44is the Watershed issue among Bible
3:16:48Scholars will Jesus Christ Return to the
3:16:52Planet Earth to rule the Earth that's
3:16:54the issue there are
3:16:571845 references to this in the Old
3:17:00Testament 17 books in the Old Testament
3:17:03give prominence to the Messiah coming to
3:17:05rule on the planet
3:17:06Earth there are 318 references to him
3:17:09doing this in the New Testament there
3:17:12are 216 chapters that focus on this 23
3:17:15of the 27 books of the New Testament
3:17:16give prominence to this event say gchu
3:17:19what's your point well for every
3:17:22prophecy of Christ's first coming that
3:17:24we explored you know uh last time time
3:17:27before last actually for every prophecy
3:17:30of his first coming there are at least
3:17:31eight of his second coming that have yet
3:17:34to be fulfilled were the first 300
3:17:36fulfilled and how we looked at that in
3:17:38our first session are the rest of these
3:17:40going to be fulfilled absolutely but
3:17:42it's astonishing that most churches
3:17:45don't believe it
3:17:47and that you say well you're being a
3:17:48little rough there to there there is a
3:17:50view if you don't believe in a literal
3:17:53Return of the Lord to rule on the throne
3:17:55of David you're known that's that's
3:17:57called an amillennial view I don't
3:17:59believe in a real Millennium they want
3:18:00to be but amillennialists try to
3:18:02allegorize this where did it all this
3:18:04start one of the early church fathers
3:18:07origin he introduced the idea of
3:18:10allegorizing scripture the scripture
3:18:12doesn't really mean that literally it
3:18:13means it allegorically he started that
3:18:16unfortunately Augustin picked up on that
3:18:18and he built a system of belief called
3:18:22amillennialism now I have to get the
3:18:24picture the
3:18:26Roman leadership shifts shifts to um
3:18:31Christianity it's political manuver okay
3:18:33fine but being a minister in those days
3:18:37preaching against the evil world and how
3:18:39God is how Jesus is going to come and
3:18:41rid the world of its evil rulers didn't
3:18:43sell well to to the to the leadership
3:18:46well that's not really he's going to
3:18:48rule in our hearts and you you start you
3:18:50know they start soft ping so you have a
3:18:52view called a millennialism and of
3:18:53course that became the root belief
3:18:56within the Roman Catholic Church as the
3:18:58centuries rolled on we get to the to the
3:19:02uh Reformation which did an incredible
3:19:05job at recognizing and fighting for
3:19:09salvation by faith alone men went
3:19:11willingly to be burned at the stake for
3:19:13their commitment to the the doctrine of
3:19:16salvation they did an incredible job
3:19:18real heroes tremendous
3:19:20era however they didn't go far enough
3:19:23they never reexamined the eschatology
3:19:25that is that's a fancy term for study of
3:19:27the end times so most Protestant
3:19:30denominations even though they have
3:19:33moved away from the romanism of the that
3:19:36was the issue in the Reformation never
3:19:39dealt with the amillennial eschatology
3:19:42they inherited and most Protestant
3:19:45nominations are Millennial in their
3:19:48views they're also post-tribulation I'll
3:19:50take care of that next time um and uh
3:19:52now what are the problems with this view
3:19:54it's the most widely held view among uh
3:19:56would be
3:19:58Christians well first of all it does
3:20:00violence to the Messianic promises all
3:20:02through the Old
3:20:03Testament there are passages and
3:20:05passages and passages that are
3:20:06unconditional in favor of Israel that
3:20:09you have to do something
3:20:10with and the the tragedy of see many of
3:20:13these view we have many views in in in
3:20:15Prophecy that good men can comfortably
3:20:19disagree this one is dangerous because
3:20:21it makes it attacks the character of God
3:20:24did God mean what he said and and say
3:20:26what he mean meant in the Old Testament
3:20:28there are hundreds of these
3:20:29prophecies the destiny of Israel and
3:20:32God's covenants is the issue the church
3:20:34has been classically
3:20:36anti-semitic that you know the Jews
3:20:39killed Christ and so all that nonsense
3:20:41all kinds of abuse emerg from
3:20:44this there are numerous reconfirm ations
3:20:48of these prophecies in the New Testament
3:20:50let's just take give you one example
3:20:52it's easy to remember the promise that
3:20:54Mary got from the angel when the angel
3:20:55announced that she was going to have a
3:20:59child Gabriel says to Mary behold Thou
3:21:01shalt conceive in thy womb and bring
3:21:03forth the son and shall call his name
3:21:04Jesus how many you have heard this
3:21:06before yeah okay
3:21:08good he shall be great and he shall be
3:21:10called the son of the highest and the
3:21:13Lord God shall give unto him what the
3:21:16Throne of his father
3:21:18David that's not the father's throne in
3:21:20heaven this is the Throne of his father
3:21:22David it's a political Throne on the
3:21:24planet Earth it did not exist during his
3:21:28lifetime the ruler in Israel was an
3:21:30Edomite appointed by Rome there was no
3:21:32David's throne but the Lord God shall
3:21:35give unto him the Throne of his father
3:21:36David and he shall reign over the house
3:21:38of Jacob forever has he
3:21:42ever
3:21:44hardly They Crucified him
3:21:47will he
3:21:49absolutely God's character is an issue
3:21:52here it's in the word of God in many
3:21:53places I just take this one because it's
3:21:55so familiar to all of us so that's the
3:21:57issue now we're going to talk more about
3:21:59this next time uh our agenda was to
3:22:02introduction we did that section one
3:22:03section two was prophecy past SE section
3:22:06three was prophecy future a glimpse
3:22:09rather superficial one I'll admit but a
3:22:11glimpse of what's
3:22:14coming in the next session our last
3:22:17session we're going to talk about
3:22:18prophecy present where are we today and
3:22:21how what do we expect next so that was
3:22:24the reason we did this in the order we
3:22:25took the prophecy past as lay a
3:22:27foundation that prophecy is real it
3:22:28works it's specific it's got 2020
3:22:30accuracy then prophecy future is this
3:22:33very explicit
3:22:35scenario that's going to occupy the big
3:22:39climax the last seven years and
3:22:43some but okay where are we today
3:22:46what's the significance of what's going
3:22:47on in Israel today what's the
3:22:50significance of what's going on in
3:22:52Europe what's the significance of what's
3:22:54going on in Iraq with Babylon and all of
3:22:56that what's the significance of the
3:22:58temple issues going on we'll talk about
3:23:01a number of those and we're that's going
3:23:03to be our session section next time
3:23:05we're going to focus now on the interval
3:23:07between the 69th and 70th week we looked
3:23:09at the 60 nine weeks thoroughly last
3:23:12time we've done just a quick Glimpse at
3:23:14the 70th week to give you a flavor of it
3:23:16but we're not there yet somebody says
3:23:19gee is armagedon going there can't
3:23:21armagedon can't happen for at least
3:23:22seven years there're all kinds of things
3:23:25that have to happen before even the 70th
3:23:26week of Daniel can start and armagon
3:23:28comes at the end of that see we've made
3:23:30some progress already we got a little
3:23:31bit of
3:23:34perspective but what does happen between
3:23:36where we are is there significance with
3:23:39terrorism is New York Babylon is it
3:23:42being judged they all these are the
3:23:44kinds of questions we're going to try to
3:23:45deal with the we're going to be in the
3:23:47interval what events are next we're
3:23:49going to talk about the destiny of the
3:23:51church is the church in
3:23:53Prophecy it can't be in the Old
3:23:55Testament Paul tells us in Ephesians 3
3:23:57that it was his privilege to reveal that
3:23:59which was not that was hidden in the Old
3:24:00Testament the church does that mean it's
3:24:02not visible prophecy you'll be startled
3:24:05at how detailed the history of the
3:24:07church is laid out prophecy we'll look
3:24:09at that next time then we're going to
3:24:11talk about the Magog Invasion this is
3:24:12another one of these controversial
3:24:14issues there are good Scholars I use Hal
3:24:16Lindsay as perhaps the Exemplar of all
3:24:18of them who believe that the Magog event
3:24:21in Ezekiel 38 is part of Armageddon it's
3:24:23tied up in the last part of 70th week he
3:24:25may be right there are a number of us
3:24:28Grant Jeff myself Chuck Smith and a
3:24:30handful of
3:24:31others that are uh arguably not
3:24:36incompetent observers that uh believe
3:24:38for some technical reasons that the meog
3:24:40invasion occurs prior to the 70th week
3:24:42of Daniel which means it is possibly on
3:24:46our mediate Horizon let's ex we'll
3:24:48examine that we'll talk about the fall
3:24:51of
3:24:52Babylon versus the destruction of
3:24:54Babylon it fell in 539 the destruction
3:24:56of Babylon is something else again when
3:24:58Babylon has fallen in Revelation what
3:25:00does that mean we're going to there's a
3:25:01lot of confusion about this is America
3:25:03Babylon a lot of people think so we'll
3:25:05explore that next time and then where
3:25:07does the rebuilding of the temple fit in
3:25:10you always here gersan Salon gets his
3:25:11Cornerstone in the Press every once in a
3:25:13while well is that what does that got to
3:25:15do with anything well we'll talk about
3:25:16that but then we're going to attack or
3:25:20tackle the most
3:25:22Preposterous Viewpoint in the Bible the
3:25:27Harpo or in the Latin it's called The
3:25:29Rapture the Greek term is harpu the
3:25:31snatch the great snatch as they call
3:25:34that the True Believers suddenly are
3:25:36going to be snatched out of here now
3:25:39let's be honest with ourselves that is
3:25:42the most bizarre belief or doctrine one
3:25:45can imagine
3:25:48I'm reminded of Richard fman in Caltech
3:25:51who talks about particle physics he says
3:25:53the particle physics UT utterly
3:25:54preposterous the more you know about it
3:25:56uh it has only one thing going for it
3:25:59it's unquestionably
3:26:01correct and that's sort of the hypoth
3:26:03thing I'll show you why where do we get
3:26:04this idea how do we reconcile a rational
3:26:08Christian faith with this weird idea
3:26:11that suddenly without as a surprise
3:26:14there's going to be a big big
3:26:17nonlinearity coming we'll explore that
3:26:20the Rapture is a is not in the Bible as
3:26:22most people know but that's because
3:26:23they're not looking at the Latin Bible
3:26:25the word in the Greek is Harpo but
3:26:27everybody calls it the Rapture we'll
3:26:28explore that and we then what we'll also
3:26:30try to do is give you a nice simple map
3:26:33to show
3:26:34you how these things lay out in terms of
3:26:38their different viewpoints and we'll
3:26:40show you we we think we show you how you
3:26:42protect yourself from being deceived how
3:26:45do you test these things things what
3:26:47causes someone fundamentally to be
3:26:49amillennial or not amillennial what
3:26:51causes someone to be Pro strib or
3:26:52pre-trib or whatever we'll talk about
3:26:54we'll we'll try to put that all in
3:26:55perspective next time so that's what
3:26:58we're all about now many of you will be
3:27:00asking Okay g that's exciting but how
3:27:02can I get further into this let me tell
3:27:04you the first place I think I would go
3:27:06if this kind of thing interests you and
3:27:08I would not necessarily jump into
3:27:10specific prophecies if you're into
3:27:11that's fine but a better way to go is to
3:27:14stand back and get your arms around the
3:27:16Bible that sounds ambitious but you can
3:27:18do it in 24 1 hour sessions we have a
3:27:21little Excursion called learn the Bible
3:27:23in 24 hours and obviously you can't
3:27:24learn everything about the Bible but
3:27:25what you can get is a strategic
3:27:27perspective how it all ties together and
3:27:30it's a we have a it comes in uh in it
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3:27:38animated diagrams most of what you've
3:27:40seen in these sessions has been
3:27:42excerpted from that series but obviously
3:27:45in those series we don't have we're not
3:27:46trying to do this in four 1our sessions
3:27:48we have 24 1our sessions we have a
3:27:50chance to relay the foundation and put
3:27:52together more thoroughly if you survive
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3:31:08[Music]
3:31:30okay we are now going
3:31:32to explore the fourth session of what we
3:31:36call prophecy 101 or what is the world
3:31:38coming to and uh our agenda the first
3:31:42one as you recall we had an introduction
3:31:44the nature of time and how can we be
3:31:46sure that prophecy is for
3:31:48Real in the second section we took
3:31:50prophecy past proofs from
3:31:53history and then last time when we met
3:31:56we focused on Prophecy future what's
3:31:58often called the end times sometimes
3:32:01also called the latter days a term
3:32:03that's roughly
3:32:04equivalent in this session now we're
3:32:06going to explore those things that occur
3:32:09from where we are today until the end
3:32:11times which is probably the area that of
3:32:13most interest now I think you can
3:32:15understand why we to leave this to last
3:32:16because you can't tell where we're going
3:32:18till you have a feeling for what the
3:32:19scenario is that's laid out in some
3:32:21detail of the end times but what to
3:32:24expect next that's really our subject
3:32:27for this evening we're going to look
3:32:29again at a rather formidable list of
3:32:32topics we'll talk about the interval of
3:32:34Daniel 9:26 which is really the subject
3:32:36of tonight that'll include the destiny
3:32:39of Israel the Magog Invasion the
3:32:42rebuilding of the temple the destruction
3:32:44of Babylon what whatever that means
3:32:47we'll talk a little bit about the
3:32:48destiny of the United States the destiny
3:32:50of the
3:32:51church we of course will focus on the
3:32:54Harpo commonly called The
3:32:57Rapture and we'll also then conclude
3:33:00with sort of an overview of eschatology
3:33:02which is simply a fancy word for the
3:33:04study of the end times and we'll talk a
3:33:07little bit about some hermeneutical
3:33:08suggestions that is how do you interpret
3:33:10the Bible how do you protect yourself
3:33:12from falling into
3:33:14error well the main subject this is all
3:33:17subsumed under is the interval of Daniel
3:33:199:26 you may recall we spent in session
3:33:23two some time on the 69 weeks verse
3:33:2625 of Daniel Daniel n the 70E prophecy
3:33:30being verses 24 25 26 and 27 the last
3:33:33four verses of Daniel 9 verse 24 was the
3:33:36scope of the whole thing verse 25 dealt
3:33:38with the 69 weeks the most astonishing
3:33:42passage in the Bible where it pins down
3:33:44the exact day that Jesus would present
3:33:46himself as the Messiah NE to
3:33:49Jerusalem verse 27 the last of the 70
3:33:53weeks of years we explored last time
3:33:56because it forms the backbone of the
3:33:58framework of the end times Jesus himself
3:34:01points to it for that very purpose when
3:34:02he gives his disciples a confidential
3:34:04briefing we looked at that last time we
3:34:06of course are in this interval between
3:34:09verse 25 and verse 27 namely verse 26
3:34:12and we talked a little bit about that
3:34:13last time where Gabriel tells Daniel
3:34:16that after the after the Messiah
3:34:18presents him as king he will be karat
3:34:20executed but not for
3:34:21himself but the people of the prince
3:34:23that shall come shall destroy the city
3:34:25in the sanctuary and indeed in 70 AD
3:34:27that happened the Romans under T Supan
3:34:30um leveled the
3:34:31place Well that took 38 years Jesus
3:34:34predicted it from when he was riding the
3:34:35donkey in Jerusalem he predicted that
3:34:37and those events Encompass the
3:34:39subsequent 38 years but obviously we
3:34:40know from history that the intervals
3:34:42taken a lot longer than that longer than
3:34:44probably anyone expected virtually 2,000
3:34:47years the more we know about verse 27
3:34:50the 70th week and the more we realize
3:34:52what positioning has to take place to
3:34:54make that week well you know come off
3:34:56the more we realize that that's not far
3:34:58away because the world's moving that
3:34:59Direction that's what we're going to
3:35:00explore here one of the first things we
3:35:02need to look at as we study the Bible or
3:35:05study these topics is something that's
3:35:06mostly overlooked by many scholars and
3:35:09that's the missing key of so-called
3:35:12Systematic Theology the destiny of
3:35:14Israel if you look at any Library
3:35:17pastor's Library you'll typically find
3:35:18at least one set of books called
3:35:21Systematic Theology and by various
3:35:23authors but they all have roughly the
3:35:25same table of contents typically a
3:35:28collection of a dozen or so volumes they
3:35:30talk of bibliology the study of the
3:35:32Bible theology proper the attributes of
3:35:34God christology the study of the Lord
3:35:36Jesus Christ pneumatology the study of
3:35:37the Holy Spirit angelology the study of
3:35:40angels both fallen and
3:35:41unfallen anthropology which is the
3:35:44theological word for the study of man in
3:35:46soteriology was study of Salvation
3:35:49ecclesiology was the study of this
3:35:50mystical body of the church and
3:35:53eschatology and times the last things
3:35:56and those are the classic
3:35:57divisions it's interesting that
3:35:59virtually every set that you look at has
3:36:03a missing element in the list an element
3:36:05that involves five six of the Bible is
3:36:08not listed and that is isolog study of
3:36:12Israel as God's instrument of the end
3:36:16times or all the way through there's a
3:36:19lot of confusion in most churches about
3:36:22the distinctives between Israel and the
3:36:23church the Israel and the church are not
3:36:25to be confused they have different
3:36:27Origins different missions different
3:36:29Destinies there's a concept that's very
3:36:32prevalent in many many denominations
3:36:34which is called replacement theology
3:36:35that the church somehow has replaced
3:36:38Israel that all these promises that
3:36:40Israel was air to from the Old Testament
3:36:42she forfeited when she rejected her
3:36:43Messiah and that somehow they fought
3:36:45upon the church that's very naive it
3:36:47makes it it it's it there are many views
3:36:50we've talked about in this whole series
3:36:51that about which good Scholars can have
3:36:53different opinions don't misunderstand
3:36:55me but this is one that's disturbing
3:36:58because if you hold this view you are in
3:37:00effect imputing the character of God
3:37:03because God made very clear promises and
3:37:06we committed them sacred oath promises
3:37:08to Israel that were
3:37:09unconditional and if you feel that
3:37:11they're not going to be fulfilled you're
3:37:12imputing his character and so this is
3:37:15not one of of those places where you
3:37:16really uh it doesn't give you much room
3:37:19to to uh to maneuver a lot of other
3:37:22views we have good Scholars have
3:37:24different views and that's fine but this
3:37:26is one that's very fundamental this
3:37:28whole view of the so-called replacement
3:37:30or
3:37:31reconstruction sometimes call it laid
3:37:33the bases for the anti-Semitism if you
3:37:36want to blame someone for the Holocaust
3:37:37in Germany you have to lay the guilt at
3:37:41the silent pulpits throughout Europe and
3:37:44uh the Christian anti semitism that
3:37:46supported all that by the way the 70
3:37:48weeks that we just went through the last
3:37:50couple of sessions deal specifically
3:37:52with Israel not the church it's very
3:37:54important to understand that this
3:37:55exactly what Gabriel told Daniel we need
3:37:57to have that clear in us if you study
3:38:00Paul's Epistles you'll notice all
3:38:01through the Epistles Paul divides the
3:38:03world into three different categories
3:38:05the Jews the Gentiles and the
3:38:06church and uh there's there's no
3:38:09distinctives during the church period
3:38:12when you get to Revelation from chapter
3:38:144 onward those distinctives
3:38:17reappear the the 12 tribes and in seven
3:38:20and so forth all the way through it it's
3:38:22very the jewishness of the Book of
3:38:23Revelation is crucial if you're going to
3:38:25understand the
3:38:26book as we look at at our timeline
3:38:28that's been the backbone of this whole
3:38:30series we obviously following the
3:38:33crucifixion and so forth we have the
3:38:35diaspora the fall of Jerusalem and that
3:38:38also is right after that with at Acts
3:38:40chapter 2 we have the F the birth of the
3:38:43church and we of course are in the that
3:38:45church
3:38:46period we know that there is a time when
3:38:49Israel is to be restored after which it
3:38:51will not be uprooted from the land again
3:38:54and that's what makes it so exciting
3:38:56when we got to May 14th of 1948 when the
3:38:58state of Israel was reformed so that
3:38:59tells us even though we're beyond that
3:39:01period we know that things are getting
3:39:04positioned for the final scene you
3:39:07remember that when Jesus rode that
3:39:08donkey into Jerusalem he said to them if
3:39:10thou he says if thou Hast known even
3:39:12thou at least in this thy day what did
3:39:14he mean the very day that Gabriel had
3:39:16predicted 5 centuries earlier and was
3:39:18recorded in the Book of Daniel
3:39:19translated into Greek three centuries
3:39:21earlier this very day he says if you'd
3:39:23only know this at least in this th day
3:39:25the things which belong to thy peace but
3:39:27now Jesus said they are HID from Thine
3:39:31Eyes he pronounced judicial blindness
3:39:33upon Israel not forever now they are HID
3:39:37from their eyes how long are they hidden
3:39:39Paul tells us in Romans
3:39:4211:25 Paul says for I would not Brethren
3:39:44that you should be ignorant of this
3:39:45mystery lest you should ye should be
3:39:47wise in your own conceits that blindness
3:39:49in part is happened to Israel how long
3:39:52until the fullness of the Gentiles
3:39:54become in until the fullness of the
3:39:57Gentiles the ter for the church does
3:40:00what come in come in where we're going
3:40:03to explore that tonight as we go forward
3:40:05this fullness of the Gentiles don't
3:40:07confuse that with the times of the
3:40:09Gentiles following this period there's
3:40:10the
3:40:11tribulation we have this period called
3:40:14the times of the Gentiles started with
3:40:15Nebuchadnezzar it finishes with his
3:40:17final Gentile World ruler uh at the end
3:40:20of the tribulation times of the Gentiles
3:40:23is from Nebuchadnezzar to the coming
3:40:25World lead the fullness of the Gentiles
3:40:26is from Acts 2 through the Rapture and
3:40:29we'll show that show you why and then of
3:40:30course the tribulation when that ends
3:40:32it's interrupted by the second coming of
3:40:34Jesus Christ is setting up the kingdom
3:40:37and on we go
3:40:39okay there is an
3:40:41event that we need to talk about that
3:40:45I'll called the Magog Invasion it deals
3:40:47with Ezekiel
3:40:4938-39 many people who know nothing else
3:40:51about prophecy all know about Ezekiel
3:40:5338-39 many Christians are shocked to
3:40:55discover their other chapters in Ezekiel
3:40:572 but anyway
3:40:59um what makes this P there are two
3:41:01reasons that this passage is so well
3:41:04known among Bible Buffs the first reason
3:41:06is that it's the occasion in which God
3:41:09himself intervenes to quell an ill-fated
3:41:12invasion of Israel by Magog and its all
3:41:16the Allies include Persia Kush put Libya
3:41:19Gomer tarma mesic and tubal and others
3:41:22there's a second reason it's so well
3:41:24known among Bible prophecy Buffs is that
3:41:26the passage in Ezekiel
3:41:293839 appears to anticipate the use of
3:41:32the nuclear weapons and so it's a it's
3:41:34very interesting uh passage we need to
3:41:36deal with first of all Magog who on
3:41:40Earth is Mok as you probably aware the
3:41:43Bible refers to people by their
3:41:46ancestors their ancestral names the
3:41:47early tribes for lots of reasons first
3:41:50of all those names don't change
3:41:51throughout history other things change
3:41:53their names all the time how do you talk
3:41:55about uh you know there's a city called
3:41:57petrograd later it was called St
3:41:59Petersburg then for many years it was
3:42:01called Leningrad now it's called St
3:42:04Petersburg again what's it going to be
3:42:05called next year who knows and uh there
3:42:07are other examples we could use the
3:42:09capital of the world was Byzantium
3:42:11became Constantinople when the Muslims
3:42:14overran it became ist
3:42:16and we have how many remember cap
3:42:19Canaveral then now it's called what Cape
3:42:21Kennedy we came dangerously close to
3:42:24having called Cape Hillary but I won't
3:42:25go there
3:42:27that's but one of the one of the
3:42:29challenges we have as we study the Bible
3:42:30is to understand who the for who these
3:42:33uh uh people who the people were that
3:42:35came from these ancient tribes
3:42:38fortunately there is a writer that wrote
3:42:42uh uh even a century or so before
3:42:45Ezekiel by the name of hesiod he was a
3:42:47Greek didactic poet wrote in the 8th
3:42:49Century BC and he spoke of the mogans by
3:42:52their Greek names the
3:42:54skians and Herodotus who's known as the
3:42:56father of history in the fifth century
3:42:58BC points out the skians terrorize the
3:43:01southern steps of Russia from the
3:43:03Ukraine all the way to China from about
3:43:05the 10th Century BC to about the 3r
3:43:07century BC and Pho and Josephus and
3:43:10other writers all support this identity
3:43:13of of Magog being uh a term for the
3:43:16ancestor of the true Russian the Russian
3:43:19Federation uh about about 95% of them
3:43:22are ancestors of the skians in effect
3:43:25the Great Wall of China is is written by
3:43:28the ancient writers as the ramparts of
3:43:30Gog and meog that's what was built for
3:43:32to keep the mogans out and the Soviet
3:43:35archaeologists over the over the years
3:43:37have uncovered all kinds of background
3:43:39on these from the graves because these
3:43:40graves are frozen in Siberia so you have
3:43:432500 year old Graves
3:43:45in which there's still material in the
3:43:47digestive tract they can analyze it
3:43:48understand their lifestyle and the in
3:43:50there are several institutes in in
3:43:52Russia that specialize in those in those
3:43:54sciences and they know a great deal
3:43:56about the skians and let us move on but
3:43:58if you don't know any of this background
3:44:00we also just from the text you know they
3:44:02come MOG comes from he he both leads and
3:44:05arms this Invasion from the uttermost
3:44:07parts of the north well go to a map find
3:44:11Israel and go north from the north part
3:44:14what's North
3:44:15Russia MOG is due north of
3:44:19Israel Let's Take a Little Closer Look
3:44:22MOG had all his allies are listed in
3:44:26Ezekiel uh 38 verse 5 and following
3:44:29Goomer mesek tubal tarma Persia put
3:44:32Libya Kush and so forth and they all
3:44:34come up against Israel but God is going
3:44:37to intervene and uh they'll they'll be
3:44:39sorry they did an interesting sidelight
3:44:42is that in the passage of Ezekiel she
3:44:45and danan are on the sidelines saying
3:44:46what are you guys doing they're just
3:44:48speaking not participants they're on the
3:44:50sidelines well Sheba and danan are the
3:44:52region that we call today Saudi Arabia
3:44:53it's interesting that they're even
3:44:55though they're Islamic they're on the
3:44:56sidelines one of the complaints of Isam
3:44:59Bin Laden is that too much arabas within
3:45:01the Islamic world is viewed as a client
3:45:03of the US so I think it's very
3:45:05interesting that they're not defending
3:45:06or participating they're on the
3:45:08sidelines but let's move on here the
3:45:10nuclear weapons thing it turns out that
3:45:12Ezekiel 39 tells us that the leftover
3:45:14weapons provide all the energy needs for
3:45:16Israel for 7even years the ancient
3:45:18writers assume that must be symbolic
3:45:20because nothing can burn that long we
3:45:21smile at that today because there is a
3:45:23technology very obvious to us the
3:45:24weapons technology that could provide
3:45:25all the energy needs for seven years
3:45:28Ezekiel goes on to describe or says the
3:45:30Holy Spirit through Ezekiel goes on to
3:45:31say that professionals are hired to
3:45:34clear the battlefield and they wait
3:45:36seven months and then they clear it for
3:45:37seven months and what do they do with
3:45:39what they find they bury it east of the
3:45:41Dead Sea read that
3:45:43downwind and furthermore if a traveler
3:45:45finds something that the professionals
3:45:46have missed he doesn't touch it he marks
3:45:49the location and lets the professionals
3:45:51deal with it this was written 250 years
3:45:54ago very contemporary
3:45:56language but there is a disturbing hint
3:45:58in Ezekiel
3:46:0139 where God says I will send fire upon
3:46:04Magog earlier he talked about sending
3:46:06hailstones of fire from heaven are going
3:46:07to wipe out MOG and all his allies this
3:46:10Invasion that they're going to try on
3:46:11Israel trying to go after are is going
3:46:13to get thwarted by God himself
3:46:15says I will send fire on
3:46:17MOG and upon them that dwell carelessly
3:46:20in the aisles and they shall know that
3:46:21I'm the Lord now that's a disturbing
3:46:23phrase what does he mean I'll send fire
3:46:26on Magog and among them that dwell
3:46:28carelessly in the Isles or coastlands we
3:46:32don't know what that means the Hebrew
3:46:34word for Isles is Ambiguously treated we
3:46:36it's generally used as some remote
3:46:38Pleasant far off
3:46:41Place some Scholars jump to a conjecture
3:46:44that maybe that's the United
3:46:46States maybe God uses our missiles to
3:46:49wipe out MOG but we take a hit in
3:46:51exchange so there are some that write
3:46:54books and and and speculate that this
3:46:56this may hint at a thermonuclear
3:46:58exchange overall this we were 10 minutes
3:47:00away from doing that in February of 2001
3:47:04but that's another story let's move on
3:47:06I'm just going to Simply say that more
3:47:08you know about the details of the text
3:47:10in Ezekiel 38-39 and we could spend a
3:47:13full evening just going over the textual
3:47:15details and don't let the vocabulary
3:47:17throw you that's a whole another issue
3:47:19but the more you know about the current
3:47:21geopolitical Horizon and the text itself
3:47:24the more it seems that this could be
3:47:26getting into position to happen very
3:47:28soon now that leads to another issue
3:47:31let's go look at the 70th week we know
3:47:33the 70th week of Daniels is interrupted
3:47:35or ends with the Battle of armagedon
3:47:38which of course is interrupted by the
3:47:39second coming of Jesus Christ and
3:47:40setting up the kingdom that part that
3:47:43that much of the presentation is pretty
3:47:45much free of controversy but where does
3:47:48the MOG Invasion fit in there are good
3:47:50Scholars and I'll use Hal Lindsay as my
3:47:52best example of that that present the
3:47:54MOG Invasion as part of what you would
3:47:56call the armagedon scenario as one of
3:47:58the events that that are involved in the
3:48:00last last part of the last half of the
3:48:0270th week of Daniel but there are some
3:48:05Scholars Grant Jeff Chuck Smith myself
3:48:08and the handful of others that believe
3:48:10for a number of technical reasons that
3:48:13the Magog Invasion occurred URS prior to
3:48:16the 7th week of Daniel and it doesn't
3:48:18mean we're right but that is a view that
3:48:20you should be aware of and notice by the
3:48:23way that it's not necessarily at the
3:48:24beginning of the 7th week it might be
3:48:26well in advance of that that's another
3:48:28discussion we'll get to in a little bit
3:48:29but the point is The meog Invasion the
3:48:32is ambiguous as to where it may appear
3:48:34even some that try to place it at the
3:48:35end of the Millennium because there
3:48:36isn't a goog and Magog illusion there
3:48:38but that's a there's a number of reasons
3:48:40why it's used idiomatically we
3:48:42believe in any case there's something
3:48:45else that shows up here that we should
3:48:46talk about that's the rebuilt
3:48:48Temple that uh we don't know when it's
3:48:50going to be built all we know is that
3:48:52it's going to be standing by the middle
3:48:53of that week many people presume but
3:48:55it's a conjecture that it's built as a
3:48:57result of the Covenant being forced it
3:48:58may or may not be uh we don't know
3:49:00that's not clear but the temple being
3:49:02rebuilt that's our next topic we'll
3:49:03touch on we know it's going to be
3:49:05rebuilt because Jesus mentions it in
3:49:06Matthew 24:15 Paul mentions it in 2
3:49:09Thessalonians CH 2:4 and John mentions
3:49:11it in the first two verses of Revelation
3:49:1311 so it's clearly a fixture key fixture
3:49:17in the 70th week of Daniel this is a
3:49:19model that you often visit when you're
3:49:21in Jerusalem of the temple what it
3:49:23looked like roughly as its conjecture
3:49:25that is the second temple Solomon Temple
3:49:27if we try to figure out where it stood
3:49:28there's a lot of controversy this is an
3:49:30aerial photograph of the Temple Mount
3:49:33area the most critical 35 Acres on the
3:49:36planet Earth the Dome of the Rock This
3:49:39picture is looking South U East from the
3:49:43Northwest there the Dome of the Rock and
3:49:46the Western Wall we'll look at that in a
3:49:48minute and the alak amas the principal
3:49:49Muslim structures that are dominant on
3:49:52the uh on the property the mo the Dome
3:49:56of the Rock of course gives Jerusalem
3:49:57its characteristic Skyline it is not a
3:50:00mosque it's not the mo and it was not
3:50:02built by Omar many people call the
3:50:03mosque of Omar that's incorrect for lots
3:50:04of reasons it's the Dome of the Rocks
3:50:06proper term but in any case this is a
3:50:08snapshot you've seen it many times in
3:50:10the news the What's called the Western
3:50:11Wall some people still use the old name
3:50:13called The Wailing Wall
3:50:15and if you look at the proper at the
3:50:17wall down here there's a a worship area
3:50:19for the the men and on the right side
3:50:22there's a space for the women to they
3:50:24wor they they worship separately you'll
3:50:26notice if you're going to go up on the
3:50:28Temple Mount itself you go up this ramp
3:50:31through the mcgravy gate and you're on
3:50:32this on the on the platform itself it's
3:50:35all held it's all made level by this
3:50:36retaining what you're actually looking
3:50:38at here is a retaining wall this is a
3:50:40close-up view of the the worship area
3:50:43and if you go through
3:50:45that opening there there's a tunnel that
3:50:47goes all the way to the Arab quarter it
3:50:49goes right along the wall and uh it's
3:50:52it's a it's a used to be it took a lot
3:50:55of pull to get in there now they've got
3:50:56it open up so that you can go all the
3:50:58way through and and see solomonic Stone
3:51:01and the the root structure to the
3:51:02retaining
3:51:03wall you can learn more about this the
3:51:06area by looking at a satellite
3:51:07photograph of it um this 35 acres is the
3:51:11Temple Mount we were looking right here
3:51:13at the uh Western Wall if you go up the
3:51:16Temple Mount you come up here and go up
3:51:18this ramp through the Babi gate you're
3:51:20not on the Temple Mount The prominent
3:51:22fixtures being the Dome of the Rock This
3:51:24octagonal structure a a a fountain is
3:51:27here the alost fountain and then you
3:51:30have the AL oxa mosque that is the the
3:51:34these are the prominent um Muslim
3:51:37structures the traditional view of the
3:51:39original Temple is that it stood where
3:51:41the Dome of the Rock presently stands
3:51:42and that is the official view of the
3:51:44reant in Israel and it's to this day but
3:51:48most scientists disregard this for a lot
3:51:50of reasons the evidence is to the
3:51:51contrary there are some Scholars led by
3:51:54Dr Asher calman and others for the last
3:51:56couple of decades that have done
3:51:57research they're convinced that the
3:51:59temple actually stood to the north of
3:52:00the Dome of the Rock by about 100 meters
3:52:03lining up with what could be the golden
3:52:05usually is presented as the Golden Gate
3:52:07this Eastern Gate that lines up with the
3:52:10the peak of the Mount of Olives and they
3:52:12may turn out to be right uh this created
3:52:14quite a when it was first published a
3:52:15couple decades ago because it puts the
3:52:17Dome of the Rock in the outer court and
3:52:21that's it would seem to conform with
3:52:23Revelation 11 veres 1 and two but uh
3:52:27there is another view there's some
3:52:28problems with this view uh Agrippa can
3:52:31view his ability to view the the place
3:52:34where they did the offerings the azarra
3:52:35was that Port that part of the temple
3:52:37that where they did the offerings AG
3:52:40grippa could view it from his his uh
3:52:42Palace the Romans could surveil it and
3:52:45when you try to build a
3:52:46three-dimensional model of the Temple
3:52:48Mount you run into all kinds of
3:52:49difficulties containing the information
3:52:51that's available from the ancient
3:52:53records there's also a water Aqueduct
3:52:55that fed the u high priest Mikvah over
3:52:59the Watergate it turns out that the
3:53:01water Aqueduct parts of it are still
3:53:03there you can survey it and if the
3:53:04temple stood at the Dome of the Rock it
3:53:06would be 21 meters too high in elevation
3:53:08so there's a problem and there's also a
3:53:10question of the military moat and some
3:53:12other things that I won't get into all
3:53:13this for this quick rundown but you need
3:53:14to know a little bit more history 7 ad
3:53:17we had the fall of Jerusalem Barba LED
3:53:19his famous Revolt in 19 in in 132 ad and
3:53:23uh it took the Romans three years to get
3:53:25their act together and Crush that Revolt
3:53:26but by then they decided they could
3:53:28never re rule Judea as long as there was
3:53:30a Jewish presence in Jerusalem so they
3:53:32leveled the city not just the temple the
3:53:34whole city was plowed under they built a
3:53:36Roman city on top of that Aila capalina
3:53:39they also put a temple to Jupiter right
3:53:42over the site of the old Jewish temple
3:53:45and Jerome's commentary Isaiah speaks of
3:53:48a equestrian statue to hadron right over
3:53:50the holy of holies
3:53:53well some of the modern Scholars
3:53:55particularly The Architects have noticed
3:53:56something interesting about the Temple
3:53:57Mount that's been overlooked by many and
3:53:59that is that the Dome of the Rock The
3:54:00alaz Fountain and the
3:54:03U aloos are on a center line and to a
3:54:07architect that implies a master plan it
3:54:10turns out the same guy that built the
3:54:11temple of Jupiter in Jerusalem also
3:54:13built a temple to Jupiter at balbec in
3:54:16Lebanon and this also will have more
3:54:18meaning if I show it to you from the a
3:54:19plan view the Romans in the first
3:54:21century built their temples with with a
3:54:24rectangular Basilica a large Square
3:54:28Courtyard and opposite the Basilica
3:54:30would be a polygon rotunda of some kind
3:54:33and theyd put various statues and stuff
3:54:35in the courtyard that was a typical
3:54:37pattern if you take the Temple of
3:54:39Jupiter at balbec which is there you can
3:54:41get the you can actually you know get
3:54:43the plans and you put that directly on
3:54:47top of the Dome of the Rock I mean the
3:54:49the the in the Temple mount it fits
3:54:52perfectly that the you have the aloa
3:54:55mosque has been rebuilt six times
3:54:57because of earthquake damage it fits
3:54:59approximately uh instead of a hexagon
3:55:01they have an octagon in Jerusalem but
3:55:04the pattern is there and that also
3:55:05implies that the alaz fountain happens
3:55:07to be over where the holy of holies
3:55:08would have been standing so that's a
3:55:10conjecture the same guy built both
3:55:12temples it's not surprising that the
3:55:13architecture should be the same and so
3:55:17to make a long story short then we have
3:55:18three conjectures the southern
3:55:20conjecture the traditional View and the
3:55:24northern conjecture and there each one
3:55:26of these has groups that support you
3:55:28know believe it's correct infrared
3:55:30photography and ground penetrating radar
3:55:33studies and other things are beginning
3:55:35to
3:55:37unconcluded support the southern
3:55:39conjecture we really won't know until
3:55:41there's till we have access to the Mount
3:55:42because the Muslims are are doing
3:55:44everything they can to destroy any
3:55:45evidence they find uh Paving it over or
3:55:49destroying it whatever they haul away
3:55:51artifacts by the truckload and that's
3:55:53another issue Brewing let's move to
3:55:56other issue that's on the horizon you
3:55:58hear much about and that's the
3:55:59destruction of Babylon there's another
3:56:01controversial area and there are I'm
3:56:04going to encourage each of you that are
3:56:06interested in this area to write down
3:56:08three pairs of chapters to read at one
3:56:11city Isaiah 13 and 14 Jeremiah
3:56:1515:51 and Revelations 17-8 there are
3:56:18many other passages alluding to Babylon
3:56:20both historical and future but these are
3:56:22the principal passages that you need to
3:56:24read at one sitting to get a feeling for
3:56:26the flavor of the of
3:56:28language now you need to understand the
3:56:31difference between the fall of Babylon
3:56:33which occurred in 539 BC that's when
3:56:35Cyrus took it over we talked about that
3:56:38in the second
3:56:39session but you remember that Cyrus
3:56:41overtook it without a battle in fact
3:56:44that became his successor's Capital when
3:56:47the Persians were ultimately conquered
3:56:48by the Greeks Alexander made it his
3:56:50Capital Babylon was not destroyed in 539
3:56:54it was taken over the Persians and then
3:56:55two centuries later by the Greeks it
3:56:59atrophied over the centuries but but as
3:57:01late as the 1800s of our current ERA
3:57:05there were people living on the ruins
3:57:09there but it's presently and furthermore
3:57:11it's presently being rebuilt Saddam
3:57:13Hussein has spent a fortune having it
3:57:16confirmed by archaeologists and then
3:57:18rebuilding the original Palace of
3:57:20Nebuchadnezzar and a lot of other
3:57:21buildings so it is being
3:57:24rebuilt now I want you to contrast the
3:57:26fall of Babylon that occurred in 539
3:57:29with
3:57:30what Isaiah and Jeremiah talk about its
3:57:32destruction don't confuse the fall of
3:57:34Babylon many scholars do many of your
3:57:36Bible helps will confuse these two
3:57:37issues they say well it was destroyed
3:57:39back in 539 no it was conquered it
3:57:41wasn't destroyed the destruction of
3:57:43Babylon and Isaiah 13 and 14 and
3:57:45Jeremiah 15:51 is very
3:57:49detailed once it's destroyed it is never
3:57:51to be inhabited that's reemphasized in
3:57:54those
3:57:54passages the building materials will
3:57:57never be
3:57:58reused and it'll be destroyed like Sodom
3:58:00and Gomorrah how was Sodom and Gomorrah
3:58:02destroyed by hailstones of fire from the
3:58:04sky
3:58:06Etc there's to further compound now
3:58:08there's there's there's two kinds of
3:58:09people by the way there are those that
3:58:11believe that well that's just figurative
3:58:13that the F that the destruction of
3:58:14Babylon occurred in 539 that's just
3:58:16contrary to history there are other and
3:58:18and and um uh there are others that look
3:58:21for a literal city of Babylon on the
3:58:23banks of the
3:58:24Euphrates the pride of the caldan
3:58:26Excellency those are all terms out of
3:58:28Isaiah and Jeremiah well what do you do
3:58:31with Revelation where it deals with
3:58:33mystery Babylon in some very very
3:58:35different terms there are many people
3:58:37that say well that's referring to New
3:58:39York City or the United States
3:58:41idiomatically or in an allegorical sense
3:58:43when I can see why they see that but if
3:58:45you take the B if you believe God means
3:58:46what he says and says what he means it
3:58:48doesn't really fit adequately mystery
3:58:50Babylon there's two chapters about that
3:58:53Revelation 171 18 Revelation 17 presents
3:58:57mystery Babylon as the great she
3:59:00rides the Beast that has seven heads and
3:59:0110 horns don't confuse the woman with
3:59:03and the Beast the woman rides the Beast
3:59:06and if you want the definitive study on
3:59:07that I encourage you get Dave Hunt's
3:59:08book a woman rides the Beast it gives
3:59:10you incredible well-documented history
3:59:13that's crucial to understand understand
3:59:15and it also has a good prophetic
3:59:17perspective she's called there in
3:59:19Revelation the mother of harlots and
3:59:21Abominations drunk with the blood of the
3:59:24Saints and many people of course see
3:59:26portrayed in that a history of the
3:59:28Vatican one
3:59:30Pope in one afternoon M murdered more
3:59:32Christians than all all the rest of the
3:59:34Roman Empire did there's a whole history
3:59:36you need to understand Revelation 18
3:59:39presents Babylon the great in a little
3:59:41different sense as a city and and when
3:59:44it gets destroyed the Kings the
3:59:45merchants and the ship
3:59:48captains stand back AAR off and be moan
3:59:51or loss it's it appears to be a major
3:59:53commercial centroid of some kind much
3:59:56confusion are they both the same or are
3:59:58the two
3:59:59idioms well you need to study when you
4:00:01study the Book of Revelation you'll
4:00:02discover it's in one way it's a study of
4:00:04two women the woman of his chapter 12
4:00:06and the woman of chapter 17 they're
4:00:09opposites the woman in chapter 12 is
4:00:11clearly
4:00:12Israel um
4:00:14she's the mother of the Manchild she's
4:00:17clothed with the sun the sun moon and
4:00:18stars those are idioms from Genesis
4:00:2238 um her enemy is the dragon the the
4:00:25Satan her relationship she's hated by
4:00:27the world she's sustained by the wings
4:00:29of Heaven she has crown of 12 Stars
4:00:32she's spoken of as the Widow she's
4:00:33widowed and divorced those are idioms
4:00:35out of Hosea and her final location of
4:00:37course is in the New Jerusalem the woman
4:00:39in chapter 12 in contrast to the woman
4:00:42that rides the Beast chapter 7 who's
4:00:44upon many Waters many nations she's the
4:00:46mother of harlots she's clothed with
4:00:48purple scarlet and gold she Reigns over
4:00:50the kings of the earth and there's going
4:00:52to be 10 Kings specifically that support
4:00:54her that ultimately turn on her and
4:00:55consume her and she's sustained by the
4:00:58dragon that Satan her headdress says
4:01:01mystery Babylon the great and she brags
4:01:03that she's no Widow she's not divorced
4:01:05and so on and her final location is the
4:01:07habitation of demons very contrasting
4:01:09and deliberate deliberately so if you
4:01:12read the six chapters I've suggested
4:01:14Isaiah 13:14 Jeremiah 15:51 and
4:01:17Revelation 17 17 and 18 you'll notice
4:01:21they have even though they're very
4:01:23different in style they have some things
4:01:25in common many nations are attacking
4:01:28Israel is in the land and forgiven at
4:01:30that time that certainly was not true in
4:01:32the past it's going to be destroyed like
4:01:34Sodom and Gomorrah never to be inhabited
4:01:37bricks never reused is all is all
4:01:39through Isaiah and Jeremiah many places
4:01:41it's going to occur specifically in the
4:01:43day of the Lord that's a term of the end
4:01:45times that Joel and the other prophets
4:01:48talk
4:01:48about and uh clearly in Isaiah and
4:01:52Jeremiah it's a literal caldan Babylon
4:01:55they're talking about and in of course
4:01:57in Jeremiah as well as Revelation talks
4:01:59about the king's fornication that
4:02:00they're drunk with wine and the the idea
4:02:02of being clothed in scarlet and purple
4:02:03and the golden cup in her hand is in
4:02:05both Jeremiah and Revelation you begin
4:02:06to see how the language and the issues
4:02:09interweave in all six chapters can't be
4:02:12dismissed too easily well that leave
4:02:14that leaves by the way a
4:02:16dilemma uh Dave Hunt who's done a great
4:02:19job on documenting the woman rides the
4:02:21Beast and so forth does not attach any
4:02:23significance to the idea of a literal
4:02:25babylin being rebuilt rebuilt on the
4:02:27banks of the Euphrates other Scholars
4:02:29have just the opposite View and I was
4:02:31asked to mediate between these two views
4:02:33at one of the formal uh uh explorations
4:02:36of this and I surprised both groups by
4:02:38saying they're both true and they're
4:02:40surprised how do you do that from
4:02:41Zechariah 5 in zear Zariah 5 is a
4:02:44strange passage that I think ties it all
4:02:46together in a very strange way in
4:02:48Zechariah 5 verse 5 and following
4:02:52Zechariah sees a vision of a woman who's
4:02:54called
4:02:55wickedness and she's sealed in the epha
4:02:57a large commercial measure and sealed in
4:03:00there with a talent of lead on top and
4:03:03it's carried then by two women with
4:03:05wings of a stor now a stor is an unclean
4:03:07bird you have to think Jewish here and
4:03:10it was carried between Earth and Heaven
4:03:11and and and where are they carrying it
4:03:14in Zechariah 5:1 says to build a house
4:03:16in the land of Shar shinar occurs seven
4:03:18times the Bible always refers to the the
4:03:20area that Babylon was built it's the
4:03:21it's the it's the plain of Shar is where
4:03:23Babylon was located to build it a house
4:03:25in the land of shinar and it shall be
4:03:27established and set there Upon Our Own
4:03:29base I believe that's yet future I
4:03:32personally believe that the that Babylon
4:03:36the power system that it represents that
4:03:39migrated from Babylon to Persia to Rome
4:03:42became Pagan Rome under Latin names
4:03:44Greek Greek names and Latin names it
4:03:46will ultimately migrate back to where it
4:03:48started to get receive its judgment you
4:03:50say Chuck there's no evidence of that
4:03:52good see I'm not reading into my view
4:03:55something I know the point is there is
4:03:56no evidence of that yet that makes it a
4:03:58great test case because if if we take
4:04:02the word seriously that's what we can
4:04:03expect and if you see it start to
4:04:06migrate if the Vatican or whatever start
4:04:08showing some major interest they
4:04:09obviously have interest in Jerusalem if
4:04:11they have major interest in Babylon
4:04:14remember you heard it here first okay
4:04:16let's move on to another topic that's um
4:04:20obviously part of the obviously PS that
4:04:23people are approaching us saying Chuck
4:04:24what about the United States is is the
4:04:25United States Babylon no I don't believe
4:04:27it is in the literal sense uh is the
4:04:29United States in in Prophecy yes it is
4:04:31in a way and for that I encourage you to
4:04:33read Hosea chapter 4 to 14 and let's
4:04:37take a look at
4:04:38this we need to recognize our
4:04:41predicament is very similar to the
4:04:43northern kingdoms that Hosea was called
4:04:45to minister to you remember when Charles
4:04:47Dickens opened his novel The Tale of Two
4:04:49Cities he says that first sentences it
4:04:51was the best of times and it was the
4:04:52worst of times that describes the
4:04:55northern kingdom that Hosea was called
4:04:58to bring God's indictment against the
4:05:00northern kingdom their standing under
4:05:01jeroboam the standing army had recovered
4:05:04all the territory previously lost they
4:05:06enjoyed unparalleled material Prosperity
4:05:10it was the best of times as far as they
4:05:11were concerned
4:05:14but God didn't think so through Hosea
4:05:17God presented his indictment they had
4:05:18exchanged their loyalty to their
4:05:21Heritage for idol worship for worshiping
4:05:24false
4:05:25gods what were the results the lowest EB
4:05:28of morality in their
4:05:30entire uh history social injustice
4:05:33violent crime religious hypocrisy
4:05:34political Rebellion selfish arrogance
4:05:37spiritual and gratitude all detailed in
4:05:40in Hosea as God brings his indictment
4:05:43what's hosea's message because of all
4:05:45this although a loving God a caring God
4:05:49had provided their abundance and their
4:05:51prosperity their sin disloyalty and
4:05:53abandonment of him will force him to
4:05:57vindicate his Justice with judgment
4:05:59that's the message of Hosea in fact he
4:06:00goes on to say thus God is going to use
4:06:03their enemies as his instrument of
4:06:05judgment and shortly they'll be history
4:06:08that's exactly what happened when the
4:06:09Assyrians ultimately Wipe Out the
4:06:10northern
4:06:11kingdom well as you go through through
4:06:13all that it's a disturbing experience to
4:06:17study carefully the book of Hosea
4:06:19because you will see leaping out at you
4:06:21the parallel to our own situation the
4:06:23American parallel on the positive side
4:06:25it's it's the best of possible times
4:06:28yeah we got some e economic disruption
4:06:30at the moment but in general our our
4:06:33country is the primary superpower on the
4:06:35planet Earth the military the fin you
4:06:37can look at the whole country and feel
4:06:38awfully Proud To Be An American in many
4:06:41ways let's take a look how God might see
4:06:43it
4:06:44homosexuality is just an alternative
4:06:46lifestyle we murder babies that are
4:06:48socially inconvenient we change Marriage
4:06:50Partners like a fashion
4:06:52statement we have abandoned the sanctity
4:06:54of commitments in all of our
4:06:55relationships not only in our marriages
4:06:57but in our business transactions it used
4:06:58to be my word is my bond not anymore so
4:07:00Sumi you
4:07:02know God rebuked Israel for their
4:07:04brutality their murder and their Warfare
4:07:06we've had wo and Colombian high school
4:07:08and you make the list New York City has
4:07:11recorded more crimes than England's
4:07:13Scotland Wales Ireland Switzerland Spain
4:07:15Sweden Netherlands Norway and Denmark
4:07:20combined and we too have had our Vietnam
4:07:22and Kosovo and so
4:07:24forth we should have been sending Bibles
4:07:26not bullets or bombs we should have been
4:07:27sending missionaries not
4:07:29missiles we have clearly in our own
4:07:32culture disconnected character from
4:07:35Destiny immorality and deceit have also
4:07:38come to characterize the highest offices
4:07:41of our land
4:07:44our politics have condoned and covered
4:07:46up more murders than we dare
4:07:48list and our public enterpris have been
4:07:50prostituted for the convenience of the
4:07:52elite this these are descriptions of the
4:07:54situation that God brought against the
4:07:56northern kingdom they fit our country
4:07:58perfectly our entertainments have
4:08:00celebrated adultery fornication violence
4:08:03aberant sexual practices every
4:08:05imaginable form of evil makes good box
4:08:09office we become the primary exporters
4:08:12of everything God up horse
4:08:14so from God's point of view it's the
4:08:15worst of times we may feel it's the best
4:08:17of times I suspect God's assessment is a
4:08:19little different let's take a look at
4:08:21leading cultural indicators the last 30
4:08:23years 5 60% increase in violent crime
4:08:25400% increase in illegitimate births
4:08:27400% increase in divorce rate 300%
4:08:30increase in single parent homes 200%
4:08:32increase in teenage suicides 75% drop in
4:08:36SAT scores that's just one Reckoning by
4:08:38the Heritage Foundation every day in
4:08:40America there's virtually 2800 team
4:08:43pregnancies per
4:08:45day over a th000 teen abortions per
4:08:49day over 4,000 teenagers contract a
4:08:52sexually transmitted disease per
4:08:54day every 64 seconds a baby is born to a
4:08:58teenage mother five minutes later a baby
4:09:00will have born to a teenager who has
4:09:02already has a child 10 hours later 560
4:09:05babies will have been born to
4:09:10teenagers All Through the Bible there's
4:09:12a phrase that reoccurred is to be a
4:09:14measure of
4:09:15distress you see it in Deuteronomy 12
4:09:17judges 17 judges 21 Proverbs 12 Proverbs
4:09:2021 every man did what was right in his
4:09:23own eyes that's a term that
4:09:25characterizes our general culture but
4:09:28it's also a term that the Bible uses to
4:09:30describe the depth of
4:09:34self-determination absolutely no fear of
4:09:36God in another
4:09:39words we got new restrictions in our
4:09:41culture to prevent it ever being fixed
4:09:43creationism cannot be taught because it
4:09:45requires a belief in God morality cannot
4:09:48be taught because it requires a
4:09:49reference to the Bible traditional
4:09:51history cannot be taught because it
4:09:52speaks of the important place of God and
4:09:55our religious values throughout the
4:09:56entire record of human
4:09:59Affairs you know uh Tyler back in 1750
4:10:03talked about the sequence of Nations he
4:10:05says they go from bondage to spiritual
4:10:07Faith from spiritual Faith to Great
4:10:08courage from Courage to Liberty from
4:10:09Liberty to abundance and from abundance
4:10:10to complacency and from complacency to
4:10:12apathy from apathy to dependency and
4:10:15from dependence back again into
4:10:19bondage bondage Faith courage Liberty
4:10:22abundance then complacency apathy
4:10:23dependency and bondage question where
4:10:26are we in that curve that's the history
4:10:28of Nations you read the book by black
4:10:30when Nations die there's a number of
4:10:31studies they all say the same thing
4:10:33Nations go through a cycle just like any
4:10:35other organism and you can tell where
4:10:37you are in the cycle by understanding
4:10:38the
4:10:39process Thomas Jefferson said of America
4:10:42I tremble for my country when I reflect
4:10:44that God is
4:10:45just that his Justice cannot sleep
4:10:50forever see the great mystery about
4:10:52America is not where do we stand morally
4:10:55the mystery is why hasn't God judged us
4:10:57already when something happens like
4:10:58September 11th a lot of people say ah
4:11:00see God's judgment I don't think so I
4:11:01think that's from out I think that's
4:11:02from the pit of Hell but that doesn't
4:11:04still doesn't answer the question why
4:11:06has God not judged America it's overdue
4:11:09by any standard if you know if you know
4:11:11your Bible you know what God has done
4:11:12throughout history
4:11:13you realize that we're overdue what's
4:11:15going on here ah there's another verse
4:11:17we got to look at that's Genesis
4:11:1912:3 where God promises Abram he says I
4:11:22will bless them that bless thee and
4:11:23curse him that curseth thee and in thee
4:11:25shall all families of the earth be
4:11:27blessed and you can trace the rise and
4:11:28fall of Nations by their treatment of
4:11:31Israel and I personally hold the view
4:11:33that the umbrella that's protected us
4:11:35from God's judgment is our support of
4:11:38his of the apple of his eye with all
4:11:40their with all their
4:11:41problems that's between them and God and
4:11:43there are certainly problems but but our
4:11:47God's commitment to us is that he will
4:11:49bless us if we um bless them and
4:11:55conversely the British Empire started to
4:11:58tur against Israel and from that day on
4:12:00it was over look where it is today you
4:12:02you look at other
4:12:04examples well what's the output here
4:12:07what's the outcome 2 Chronicles 7:14
4:12:09announces a principle we need to embrace
4:12:11quickly and seriously If my people who
4:12:14are called by my name will cble
4:12:15themselves and pray and seek my face and
4:12:17turn from their Wicked Ways God says if
4:12:20you do those four things God says I'll
4:12:21do three I will hear from Heaven I will
4:12:24forgive their sin and I will heal their
4:12:27land I want you to notice that passage
4:12:29is not addressed to the unbelievers in
4:12:31this country it's not addressed to the
4:12:33Congress the Senate the Muslims or
4:12:34whoever it says if my people who are
4:12:37called by my
4:12:38name shall humble themselves we know how
4:12:41to do that and pray and seek my face
4:12:44that last one's a little more
4:12:45complicated perhaps oh and turn from
4:12:48their wicked ways you see it's the sins
4:12:51of the body of Christ not the sins of
4:12:52the Congress of the Pagan left that
4:12:54we're dealing with here it's the sins
4:12:55within the body of Christ they'll turn
4:12:58from then will I hear from heaven will
4:12:59forgive their sin and heal the land I
4:13:00think we can claim that if we're serious
4:13:02about it we need a Revival Robert Bor
4:13:05has pointed that out in in s gomorah the
4:13:07only thing that save America is a
4:13:08Grassroots Revival I agree but that
4:13:09Revival needs to start with you and
4:13:12I well let's move on to the next topic
4:13:14natural one is the
4:13:16church but we talk a lot about the
4:13:17church prophetically we'll confine our
4:13:19remarks to Revelation Chapter 2 and 3
4:13:22the most important part of the book book
4:13:24of Revelation is one of the most
4:13:25fruitful things to study in the Bible
4:13:26it's the only book with a promise of a
4:13:29special blessing to the reader no other
4:13:31book in the Bible has the audacity to
4:13:32say read me I special except one that's
4:13:34the Book of Revelation but as you study
4:13:36that book the most important chapters
4:13:37are not the bowls and the trumpets and
4:13:40all that stuff it's chapter 2 and three
4:13:41for you and I
4:13:44see the the Bible has it's the book it
4:13:46has a it has a Divine outline right up
4:13:48in front Revelation 1: 19 has an outline
4:13:51of the entire
4:13:52book Jesus tells John write the things
4:13:55which thou Hast seen the things which
4:13:57are and the things which shall be
4:13:59Hereafter and that outlines the book
4:14:01when you get to the at verse 19 he has
4:14:03seen a vision of Christ write the things
4:14:05which thou Hast seen the vision of
4:14:06Christ in chapter one write the things
4:14:09which are and that'll be chapters two
4:14:10and three we'll discover and the things
4:14:13which shall be metat the things that be
4:14:16Hereafter in other words those things
4:14:17that follows chapters 2 and three and
4:14:19we'll discover that that divides that
4:14:21operates as that outline of the entire
4:14:23book the seven churches in chapters 2
4:14:25and three the things that
4:14:28are first question is why those seven
4:14:31Ephesus Smyrna pergamus thyrus Sardis
4:14:34Philadelphia and Leia those are churches
4:14:36you would never have heard of Ephesus
4:14:38sure but not the others why those seven
4:14:42what about the church in Rome what about
4:14:43the church in
4:14:44Jerusalem Antioch you can you can list a
4:14:48dozen that are prominent in the book of
4:14:50Acts only one of Ephesus happens to be
4:14:53there well there's a phrase that occurs
4:14:55in each of the letters that's a key
4:14:57phrase It's the closing phrase he that a
4:14:59in ear let him hear what the spirit says
4:15:01to the churches that repeats in each of
4:15:03the seven letters we notice that there's
4:15:05at least four levels of application of
4:15:07those seven letters there's a local
4:15:09application there were real churches at
4:15:10that time that had real problems no Pro
4:15:12and Sir William Ramsey excavated
4:15:15confirmed that that's well known to most
4:15:16Scholars who have studied him
4:15:18okay but there's also an ADM monitary
4:15:22issue he that hath in near let him hear
4:15:24what the spirit says to the churches in
4:15:26other words everyone should pay
4:15:27attention to each
4:15:29Church each Church there's something
4:15:31there's an admonition that applies to
4:15:33all churches in each of the seven you
4:15:36follow me but there's also a personal or
4:15:39homiletic application he that hath an
4:15:41ear how many you in the room have an
4:15:43Earl can I see your showan okay sure we
4:15:46all do see in other words he that hath
4:15:47an ear let him hear what the spirit says
4:15:49churches so there's a personal
4:15:51application so it's a local historical
4:15:54application there's an admonitory to all
4:15:56churches should learn from this also
4:15:57each of us as individuals need to
4:16:00understand these seven letters there's a
4:16:02fourth level that's rather breathtaking
4:16:04when you discover it and that's they're
4:16:05also prophetic these churches as you
4:16:08understand the key message in each one
4:16:10lay out church history if they were in
4:16:12any other other order it wouldn't work
4:16:14but it turns out they anticipate the
4:16:16history of the church over the last
4:16:172,000
4:16:18years now as you study the churches we
4:16:21don't have time to go through this in
4:16:22detail you spend an hour each one to do
4:16:24this properly but there's the name of
4:16:26the church there's the title that Christ
4:16:27chooses of himself uh there's a
4:16:29commendation there some good news in
4:16:31other words there's a concern some bad
4:16:32news then there's an exhortation then
4:16:34there's a promise to the Overcomer and
4:16:36then there's this strange phrase he that
4:16:37hath an ear let him hear what the spirit
4:16:39says to the churches now if you're going
4:16:40to go through this properly you'll learn
4:16:42what the name of the church really means
4:16:43you'll discover the title Christ chooses
4:16:45of his own there there's 24 options he
4:16:48can use and he he selects from those for
4:16:50the U the uh uh his his his title in
4:16:54letter he has some good news some bad
4:16:56news and exhortation each one has a
4:16:59specific theme that you need to study
4:17:01and then there's a a special promise to
4:17:03the Overcomer and then this strange
4:17:04phrase that sort of ties it off he that
4:17:06hath an ear let him hear what the spirit
4:17:07says churches now what happens is if you
4:17:10go through that understand that
4:17:11structure and we don't have the time to
4:17:13develop that here uh you'll discover
4:17:15there are two churches that have nothing
4:17:16good said about
4:17:18them the Commendation is missing as you
4:17:20start outlining it there are also two
4:17:23that have no concerns nothing bad is
4:17:25said about them almost everyone there's
4:17:27a report card of each church and the
4:17:29sobering thing here by the way is every
4:17:31church is surprised by their report card
4:17:34that's sobering to realize every Church
4:17:36of the seven is surprised the guys that
4:17:38thought they were doing well were not
4:17:40the guys that didn't think they were
4:17:41doing well were doing a lot better than
4:17:42they thought
4:17:44boy that's
4:17:47sobering but there's something else that
4:17:49one can't help but notice if you study
4:17:50this carefully the promise to the
4:17:52Overcomer is a postcript for the first
4:17:55three and it's included in the body of
4:17:57the letter of the last four now if you
4:18:00hold the view that everything's here by
4:18:02design it gets your attention say gee
4:18:04what's that trying to say well we
4:18:06discover if we lay these out that
4:18:08Ephesus Mna pergamus thyra Sardis
4:18:10Philadelphia Leia they profile the
4:18:12history of the church epis is the
4:18:15polished Apostolic Church Smyrna the
4:18:17persecuted Church pergamus the married
4:18:19Church married to the world thyra the
4:18:21medieval church Sardis the
4:18:23denominational Church Philadelphia the
4:18:25Missionary church and lead deia the
4:18:27apostate Church they're in that order
4:18:29and it also lays out strangely enough
4:18:30the main emphasis throughout history we
4:18:33also notice that the first three that
4:18:35these are the ones that have the
4:18:36promises to the Overcomer as a postcript
4:18:37I'll call group a as distinct from the
4:18:40last four which I'll call group where
4:18:43the promises are in the body of the
4:18:44letter as we begin to notice that we
4:18:46notice some we can notice some other
4:18:48things the last four are unique in that
4:18:51they have explicit references to the
4:18:53second coming of Christ so they somehow
4:18:56survive to the end in one some form or
4:18:59another thot Tyra has an exp explicit
4:19:02promise that they'll go into the
4:19:04tribulation and that's a
4:19:07shock Philadelphia has a promise that it
4:19:09won't go through the tribulation I'll
4:19:11keep you from the time time of trial
4:19:13that'll come upon the whole earth we can
4:19:15infer that the the the first three uh
4:19:18who are raised from the dead may join
4:19:20the ones that are raptured out of
4:19:21Philadelphia is the general presumption
4:19:23by many scholars as for Sardis and Leia
4:19:26well that depends on the individuals I
4:19:27guess
4:19:29huh well this all raises another
4:19:31question that we'll just tag on to this
4:19:33one that's the Harpo The raptures it's
4:19:34commonly called people say well the
4:19:36raptures not the Bible it is in the
4:19:38Latin Bible we use if you the term in
4:19:40the in the text is Harpo in Greek which
4:19:43means the great snatch to be forcibly
4:19:45snatched away in the Latin it was
4:19:48rapturo and and that's where we get the
4:19:49term
4:19:50Rapture this view has to be acknowledged
4:19:54as the most Preposterous belief in
4:19:56biblical
4:19:57Christianity let's take a look at it
4:19:59where it comes from remember in the
4:20:01upper room the night that that he was
4:20:03going to be betay he was Betrayed at
4:20:05geane they're up in the upper room in
4:20:07John 14 Jesus say let not your heart be
4:20:09troubled you believe in God believe also
4:20:11in me in my father's house are many
4:20:14mansions if it were not so I would have
4:20:15told you I go to prepare a place for you
4:20:18he's not going to prepare a place for
4:20:20everybody his Believers
4:20:23I if I go and prepare a place for you I
4:20:26will come again and receive you unto
4:20:29myself that where I am there ye may be
4:20:31also what a promise he is going to
4:20:33receive us not everybody the
4:20:39Believers Paul will expand on this in 1
4:20:42thessal iians chapter
4:20:444 where Paul tells the Thessalonians I
4:20:47would not have you to be ignorant
4:20:48Brethren concerning them which are
4:20:50asleep he's using a euphemism for death
4:20:52there see the the Thessalonian Believers
4:20:54were upset because some of their friends
4:20:56had
4:20:57died and they were concerned because you
4:21:00know they all expecting that the Lord
4:21:02would come in by the way very key Point
4:21:03all through the scripture they expected
4:21:05him at any moment there's a a doctrine
4:21:08of eminence but they're all upset
4:21:10because some of their people have died
4:21:11they figured GE they've missed the the
4:21:12big opportunity he says no I would not
4:21:14have you to be ignorant Brethren
4:21:15concerning them which are asleep that
4:21:16you sorrow not even as others which have
4:21:19no hope so again he's talking about
4:21:21Believers here for if we believe that
4:21:23Jesus died and rose again even so them
4:21:26also which sleep in Jesus will God bring
4:21:29with him for this we say unto you by the
4:21:32word of the Lord that we which are alive
4:21:34and remain unto the coming of the Lord
4:21:38shall not precede them which are
4:21:40asleep for the Lord himself self will
4:21:43descend from heaven with a shout with
4:21:46the voice of the Archangel and with the
4:21:48Trump of God and the dead in Christ
4:21:50shall rise first then we which are alive
4:21:52and remain shall be caught up together
4:21:54with them in the clouds to meet the Lord
4:21:57in the air and so shall we ever be with
4:21:59the Lord you tell John was anticipating
4:22:02he would be also alive it might happen
4:22:04it might happen that
4:22:05soon now this is one one of several key
4:22:10passages about the Harpo and and that
4:22:12comes from the word caught up in the
4:22:14Greek the word there is Harpo and uh if
4:22:18you don't believe in the Rapture you got
4:22:19to tear this out of your Bible there's
4:22:21no there's the more you study it you
4:22:23can't you can't escape the explicitness
4:22:24of
4:22:26it now when we get to First Corinthians
4:22:2815 which is the famous Resurrection
4:22:30chapter that Paul writes about he makes
4:22:33another illusion to the same thing he
4:22:34says behold I show you a mystery we
4:22:36shall not all sleep but we shall all be
4:22:37changed in a moment in the twinkling of
4:22:40an eye at the last Trump for the trumpet
4:22:42shall sound and the dead in Christ shall
4:22:45and the dead shall be raised
4:22:46Incorruptible and we shall be changed
4:22:49for this corruptible must put on
4:22:51incorruption this Mortal must put on
4:22:52immortality there will be a time when
4:22:55there will be some of his own on the
4:22:57earth still alive that not have not died
4:22:59that be passed from their existing state
4:23:02into the resurrection body in an inant
4:23:05and the twinkling of an eye that's not a
4:23:07blink of an eye it's probably 10us 43 uh
4:23:11seconds but that's that's
4:23:13another there's particle physicist would
4:23:16have a explanation for that but anyway
4:23:18and this is this is the trumpet of God
4:23:20this is not the trumpet judgments of
4:23:22Revelation don't fall in that trap
4:23:23that's a whole different
4:23:24issue
4:23:27okay uh so this is this is the rapture
4:23:29passage we'll come back to this in a
4:23:30minute the issue is as a as a an
4:23:34issue first and second Thessalonians are
4:23:37the most important eschatological
4:23:39Epistles in the New Testament dealing
4:23:41with the end times we've looked at 1
4:23:43Thessalonians let's look at second
4:23:45Thessalonians because it's going to fill
4:23:47in some of the other issues here and
4:23:49it'll deal with the order of events for
4:23:52us Paul says let no man deceive you by
4:23:54any means for that day speaking of the
4:23:56day of the Lord this final Second Coming
4:23:59final consummation for that day shall
4:24:02not come except there come a falling
4:24:04away first that the man of sin be
4:24:07revealed the son of predition let me
4:24:09back up you probably need some context
4:24:11for second
4:24:17iians Paul wrote the first letter to
4:24:19thessal by the way Paul taught the
4:24:20Thessalonians for about three
4:24:22weeks then he writes a letter later to
4:24:25them and reminds them of things he
4:24:26taught them in the first three weeks of
4:24:28the Christian Walk The Rapture and all
4:24:29of that all the things he mentioned
4:24:31first Thessalonians he's reminding of
4:24:32things he taught them
4:24:35earlier suddenly as time goes on they're
4:24:38all upset because the persecutions of
4:24:41Nero what have you started
4:24:43and uh they think that the tribulation
4:24:45has started and they're really unglued
4:24:48why are they unglued well for that be
4:24:50one of two reasons either they were
4:24:52mistaught that they're going through the
4:24:55tribulation or they missed the Rapture
4:24:58other words they they feel they've been
4:24:59mistaught they've either missed the
4:25:00Rapture or somehow they because they
4:25:02think the Great Tribulation started Paul
4:25:03writes in second Thessalonians in fact
4:25:05there was a letter apparently
4:25:06circulating that was a forgery by Paul
4:25:08and he puts them straight don't be so
4:25:10upset as if as even by a letter as if
4:25:12from us let no man deceive you by any
4:25:15means for that day the end day shall not
4:25:17come except there be a falling away at
4:25:18apostasy first and that man that the man
4:25:21of sin be revealed the son of predition
4:25:24he tells us a little bit more about this
4:25:26guy who opposeth and exalteth himself
4:25:28above all that is called
4:25:30God or that is worshiped so that he as
4:25:33God sth in the temple of God showing
4:25:35himself that he is God that's part of
4:25:37the Abomination desolation thing we
4:25:39talked about last time and Paul reminds
4:25:41us reminds remember you not that when I
4:25:43was yet with you I told you these
4:25:45things and know ye and now ye know what
4:25:50restrain that he might be revealed in
4:25:52his time for the mystery of iniquity do
4:25:54already work only he who now restrain
4:25:56will restrain until he be taken out of
4:25:59the way and then shall the wicked one be
4:26:01revealed whom the Lord shall consume
4:26:03with the spirit of his mouth and shall
4:26:05destroy with the brightness of his
4:26:07coming the restrainer now this is where
4:26:10the scholars start okay who's this
4:26:11restrainer turns out when you study both
4:26:13the Greek of the passage and also
4:26:16understand the theology behind it there
4:26:17can only one be one person that's the
4:26:19Holy Spirit he's the only one that
4:26:20restrains sins Angels don't restrain sin
4:26:22Holy Spirit does and both from the
4:26:24grammar both the neuter and the
4:26:26masculine usage of the terms it's it's
4:26:29we not time to develop the whole thing
4:26:30but the order of events is important
4:26:33what Paul is saying here is the day of
4:26:35the Lord is the big debate when is the
4:26:37day of the Lord have we gotten into the
4:26:38day of the Lord he says no for that day
4:26:40shall not come except there be a Falling
4:26:42Away first an
4:26:44apostasy he who now restrains will
4:26:46restrain until he be taken out of the
4:26:48way and then shall that Wicked one be
4:26:51revealed verse eight in other words
4:26:54there's an apostasy the restrainer is
4:26:56removed the Holy Spirit and in in the
4:26:58sense that he's in in in the indwelling
4:27:00of the
4:27:01Believers then the man of sin will be
4:27:03revealed and then the day of the Lord
4:27:05remember the 70th week of Daniel is
4:27:07defined by a covenant being enforced by
4:27:10the man of sin
4:27:12this passage says that a precondition to
4:27:14his being revealed is that the
4:27:16restrainer that is the holy spirit as he
4:27:18indwells the body of Christ be
4:27:20removed when you study all the PES
4:27:22passages dealing with the second coming
4:27:24kind of things you'll discover they fall
4:27:25in two
4:27:26groups there's a couple of dozen that
4:27:29talk about the second coming where
4:27:30Christ comes in power and Glory but
4:27:32there's a whole another group that are
4:27:35different that speak of an event that's
4:27:37quite in contrast to the one we've just
4:27:39talked about the rapture
4:27:42let rather than go through all the
4:27:43verses in the time we have let me just
4:27:45summarize the differences in one case
4:27:47there's a translation of Believers
4:27:50Second Coming there's no translation
4:27:51involved in the Rapture the translated
4:27:54Saints Go to Heaven at the second coming
4:27:57the translated Saints return to the
4:27:59Earth with
4:28:00him in the Rapture there's no talk about
4:28:02Judgment of the earth there's a lot of
4:28:03other issues going on there's Judgment
4:28:05of Believers getting the rewards it's a
4:28:06whole different issue in the second
4:28:08coming of course one of the big things
4:28:09is that the the Earth is judged the
4:28:12Rapture is imminent it could happen at
4:28:15any moment there are no signs that
4:28:16precede the Rapture it could happen
4:28:18before this meeting's over
4:28:19tonight the second coming follows a
4:28:23definite series of predictive events the
4:28:24second coming cannot happen for less
4:28:27than seven years the whole 7 week in
4:28:29Daniel has to unfold yet plus some other
4:28:32things Rapture is not in the Old
4:28:34Testament that's not quite true there's
4:28:35several hints there but I want to keep
4:28:36this simple for tonight Second Coming is
4:28:38predicted all through the old test fact
4:28:40the oldest prophecy uttered by a
4:28:41prophecy is of the second coming of
4:28:43Jesus Christ and that's by Enoch you
4:28:45won't find it in Genesis 5 you'll find
4:28:47it in Jude but it's quoted of the second
4:28:49coming by Enoch Before the Flood of
4:28:51Noah raptures the Believers only the
4:28:54second coming affects all men on the
4:28:56planet
4:28:57Earth the Rapture occurs before the day
4:29:00of Wrath the second coming concludes the
4:29:02day of Wrath we'll talk more about that
4:29:04in a minute Rapture has no reference to
4:29:06Satan Second Coming Satan is bound at
4:29:08that time the Rapture he comes for his
4:29:11own in the second coming he comes with
4:29:14his
4:29:15own Rapture he comes in the air in the
4:29:18second coming he comes to the Earth the
4:29:20Rapture he he claims his bride and the
4:29:22second coming he comes with his bride
4:29:24between the two is the married supper of
4:29:25the
4:29:27Lamb the Rapture it says only his own
4:29:30will see him in second coming every eye
4:29:33shall see him the Rapture the
4:29:36tribulation follows that second coming
4:29:38the Millennium follows that Rapture
4:29:41involves the church believer Believers
4:29:42in Christ only there are some Scholars
4:29:44that believe from SEC from Daniel 12
4:29:47that the Old Testament Saints are raised
4:29:49later the main thing is this wrath of
4:29:51God issue 1 Thessalonians 5:9 makes it
4:29:55very clear many passages do but I'll
4:29:56just pick this one for God hath not
4:29:58appointed us the church to wrath but to
4:30:01obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus
4:30:03Christ Revelation 6:1 17 and following
4:30:06for the great day of his wrath is come
4:30:08and who shall be able to stand the
4:30:10contradictory the mutually
4:30:13exclusive there were let's go back and
4:30:15look at God's pattern there's a midrash
4:30:17concept of the pro prophecy is pattern
4:30:19not just prediction there were three
4:30:21groups of people facing the Judgment of
4:30:23the flood of
4:30:25Noah those that perished in the flood
4:30:27obviously those that were preserved
4:30:30through the flood the eight people on
4:30:32that Ark and those that were removed
4:30:34prior to the flood you say well G
4:30:37there's only one that was removed that
4:30:38was Enoch who was translated he was
4:30:39raptured before the judgment that's
4:30:42right and the same thing is going to be
4:30:44true at the Rapture it's going to be one
4:30:47person it's the called the body of
4:30:48Christ is the term this Bible use of the
4:30:50Believers
4:30:53collectively remember the admonitions we
4:30:55see in Luke Luke 2136 watch ye therefore
4:30:58and pray always that you may be
4:30:59accounted worthy to escape all these
4:31:00things that shall come to pass and to
4:31:02stand before the son of man
4:31:04Escape if he's if that's his admonition
4:31:06it must be possible to escape how do you
4:31:08escape by being raptured by being a
4:31:10Believer you're not going to endure the
4:31:13Wrath this verse has no meaning if we're
4:31:16if the church is to go through the
4:31:17tribulation How Can You Escape no be
4:31:20accounted worthy to escape all these
4:31:22things which come past you everywhere
4:31:23you look well let's our time slipping
4:31:25away let's talk let's quickly take a
4:31:26look at the review of esy we talked last
4:31:29time about the return of Christ to rule
4:31:31that's the central theme Here 1845
4:31:34references in the Old Testament 17 books
4:31:35give promised to the EV 318 references
4:31:37of the New Testament over 200 chapters
4:31:4023 of the 27 books of the New Testament
4:31:42give prominence to the rule of Christ on
4:31:43the earth for every prophecy of Christ
4:31:46first coming and we looked at least
4:31:47three there's 300 of those there are
4:31:49eight of a second
4:31:51coming and we talk about how the history
4:31:53of amalen ism started with
4:31:54allegorization of scripture that where
4:31:56Origins work affected Augustine and that
4:32:00led to the Roman Catholic eschatology
4:32:02which of course is amillennial a literal
4:32:04Reign on the earth is not what's on in
4:32:06their view the Reformation failed to
4:32:08address this most Protestant
4:32:10denominations to this day are Millennial
4:32:12and post trib in their escal views and
4:32:14I'll tell you what that means in a
4:32:15minute we talked about the amillennial
4:32:17problems last time Messianic promises
4:32:19throughout the Old Testament you have a
4:32:20real tough time not making God uh not
4:32:24attacking the character of God If you
4:32:25deny the millennial reign of Christ the
4:32:27destiny of Israel and God's covenants is
4:32:29a central issue throughout the Bible not
4:32:31just for this issue of course there are
4:32:34numerous reconfirmations in the New
4:32:35Testament of the same thing and we use
4:32:37last time we looked at the promise given
4:32:38to Mary by Angel Gabriel this is by way
4:32:40of review well as eschatology first of
4:32:42all divides right down this Watershed a
4:32:45millennial vers premillennial if you
4:32:47believe in a literal Millennium you're
4:32:49called a premillennialist you believe in
4:32:50a literal Millennial if you if you think
4:32:52well that's just
4:32:53symbolic U God you know Christ rules in
4:32:57our hearts kind of thing that that
4:32:58fulfills it you be all Millennial there
4:33:01are some that think the Millennials has
4:33:03already happened what they call Post
4:33:06millennialist um in more recent years
4:33:08there not many of those um I like the
4:33:10way Chuck Smith summarized this if we
4:33:12are if if the millennium's already
4:33:14started then CH then Satan's chain is
4:33:15too long okay so there is a variation of
4:33:20aism we call prism there are some
4:33:22surprisingly prominent Scholars that
4:33:24have embraced this which is uh requires
4:33:26you to allegorize the scripture the idea
4:33:28that Revelations all past history and
4:33:31that really takes some contortions to
4:33:33hold that view reconstructionism we've
4:33:35talked about as another deviant view but
4:33:38the real Point has to do with
4:33:39hermeneutics your your your principles
4:33:41of inter ration of the Bible if you take
4:33:44it literally you swing to the right side
4:33:46of this diagram if you take if you're
4:33:48willing to allegorize a scripture you'll
4:33:50swing to the left depending on what your
4:33:52view of the word of God is in terms of
4:33:55its interpretation will result in your
4:33:58eschatology if you're willing to
4:33:59allegorize take it just symbolically you
4:34:01can bend it around you say anything you
4:34:03want you'll swing to the left if you
4:34:05take it very strictly very precisely and
4:34:08very seriously you'll be you'll swing to
4:34:10the right side of this diagram it's just
4:34:11it's that simple but let's go on within
4:34:14the pray Millennial Camp there are three
4:34:17divisions and that has to do whether or
4:34:19yes there's going to be a millennium but
4:34:21where does the church stand with respect
4:34:22to the tribulation if you believe the
4:34:24church is raptured before the
4:34:27tribulation you're called pre-trip
4:34:30pre-tribulation if you believe that the
4:34:32church will go through the whole
4:34:33tribulation you're called a
4:34:35post-tribulation view there are some
4:34:37that say well he we'll be raptured in
4:34:41the middle of the week of 70th week of
4:34:42Daniel they call those mid trip it's a
4:34:44Miss it's misnomer unfortunately but
4:34:45it's commonly used let's put it on our
4:34:47diagram where we have the 70th week of
4:34:49Daniel the Great Tribulation being the
4:34:51last half of that seven-year period
4:34:53remember the people sometimes speak of
4:34:54the seven-year tribulation that's sloppy
4:34:56language really because the 7th week of
4:34:58Daniel the Great Tribulation as such is
4:35:00clearly the last half of that week but
4:35:02that's just being precise the second
4:35:05coming comes at the end of the seventh
4:35:07week of Daniel that's pretty obvious
4:35:09most Scholars agree and that sets up the
4:35:10Millennium if you assume there
4:35:12millenum the post-tribulation people
4:35:14feel the Rapture somehow occurs at the
4:35:16end of the 7th week of Daniel that
4:35:17creates all kinds of problems I'll come
4:35:19back to not the least of which as Kenny
4:35:22po liked to qup he says that makes the
4:35:24marriage supper of the Lamb a snack
4:35:25lunch you know up and you're down your
4:35:29back post-tribulation has there within
4:35:31the within that Viewpoint there are many
4:35:33scholars uh and they have all different
4:35:35views and I won't go through them all
4:35:36they don't agree themselves about the
4:35:37details because it's an inconsistent
4:35:39system actually there's some very simp
4:35:41simp problems first of all the teaching
4:35:42of
4:35:44eminency Donald gy barnhouse used to kid
4:35:46Walter when he came to the office he'
4:35:48always say Sad Day sad day Jesus can't
4:35:50come back today and he was just being
4:35:52factious because he's pointing out see
4:35:53Walter happened to be post trip in his
4:35:55in and Donald G barnhouse was one of the
4:35:58great pre-trib Scholars but he pointed
4:36:00out that if you take a post Tri you
4:36:02Jesus can't come back today there's
4:36:03seven years at least of things that have
4:36:05to happen first and that that the real
4:36:07problem there is it contradicts the
4:36:09teaching of the New Testament because we
4:36:10are instructed again and again many ways
4:36:12to expect him at any moment that means
4:36:14you can't really uh that doesn't
4:36:16reconcile with a prostrip view this also
4:36:19requires the church to be on the earth
4:36:20during the 70th week and the church and
4:36:22Israel for lots of reasons are mutually
4:36:25exclusive this also implies the church
4:36:27will experience God's Wrath which we are
4:36:29promised not to experience in 1
4:36:30Thessalonians 5:9 we looked at also in
4:36:32Revelation 3:10 and so on and how can
4:36:35the Bride come with
4:36:36him if he hasn't gathered here first
4:36:40he's got that problem there are other
4:36:42problems too who's going to populate the
4:36:43Millennium if you other words all the
4:36:45all all the senors are gone and and and
4:36:47and are judged and uh all the Believers
4:36:51are Rapture there's no one to popular
4:36:52Millennium you run some problems and who
4:36:54are the sheep and goat judgment 25 it
4:36:56begs another issue how can the virgins
4:36:58of Matthew 25 buy oil without the mark
4:37:00of the beast and there's other issues it
4:37:01just doesn't it turns out the whole
4:37:03thing starts to unravel if you look at
4:37:04it carefully there's another view of
4:37:07course and that's pre-trib and that's
4:37:09the view that's being presented here uh
4:37:12and by the way don't accept it uh the
4:37:14important thing you want to apply act
4:37:161711 I didn't make a slide of it because
4:37:18I think most of you are tired of me hear
4:37:20saying it but I'll say it one more time
4:37:21be like the bans where Luke tells you
4:37:23don't believe anything Chuck mistler
4:37:24tells you but receive the word of God
4:37:27with all openness of mind and search the
4:37:28Scriptures Daily to prove where those
4:37:29things are so the context for these
4:37:32passages needs to be the whole word of
4:37:33God the whole counsel and your your
4:37:35eschatology will challenge how
4:37:37completely you've embraced the whole
4:37:40councel of God from gen 1 one to
4:37:42revelation 22 in any case pre-trib and I
4:37:46want you to notice something on this
4:37:47diagram that the pre-trib is not
4:37:49coincident necessarily with the 70th
4:37:51week of Daniel there's some there are
4:37:53some events that occur between the
4:37:55Rapture and the beginning of the 70th
4:37:56week namely the Rapture occurs then the
4:38:00Antichrist can be revealed according to
4:38:01SEC Paul in second Thessalonians 2 then
4:38:04he has to rise to power where he can
4:38:05enforce the Covenant that might be a day
4:38:07it might be 30 years who knows and then
4:38:09that starts at 70th weeks so there is
4:38:11some I believe between the Rapture and
4:38:13the 70th week so to the extent that the
4:38:1470th week looks like it's on the horizon
4:38:16but it might be still 5 10 20 years away
4:38:19that's not a problem the Rapture still
4:38:20could happen today or tomorrow who
4:38:22knows there are those that make the
4:38:25point that the church clearly does not
4:38:26go through the tribulation but the
4:38:28tribulation technically last half the
4:38:29week so they say they call themselves
4:38:31midrib and I understand the point of
4:38:32view but again the mid tribers haven't
4:38:34really embraced the uh Daniel the last
4:38:37four verses of Daniel 9 but this little
4:38:40interval between the pre and 7th week
4:38:42need some attention too in your views
4:38:44the Rapture precedes the 70th week for
4:38:46lots of reasons the 7th week is defined
4:38:48by the Covenant being enforced by the
4:38:50coming world leader as we looked at the
4:38:51Great Tribulation is the last half of
4:38:53the 7th week the leader cannot be
4:38:55revealed until after the Rapture
4:38:56According to second thesans chapter 2:
4:38:596-9 okay the order of events just to
4:39:01review it day of the Lord has to be
4:39:03preceded by apostasy in the church the
4:39:06word in the Greek by the way and there
4:39:07are good Greek Scholars that argue even
4:39:09that refers to the Rapture but I didn't
4:39:11want want to burden this presentation by
4:39:13getting into all of that so we'll just
4:39:15defer demure on that issue the
4:39:17restrainer is then removed he now
4:39:19restraint will be restraint to be taken
4:39:21out of the way and then shall the wicked
4:39:23one be revealed in other words a
4:39:24prerequisite condition to the man of sin
4:39:26being revealed is to remove is the
4:39:27rapture of the
4:39:28church so we've gone through this
4:39:31whole
4:39:34lineup most denominations today you'll
4:39:37find are amillennial and
4:39:39post-tribulation in their perspectives
4:39:40they usually go together and that
4:39:42usually and and most fundamental
4:39:45churches bib biblically centered
4:39:47churches are premillennial and
4:39:48pre-tribulational that's the big that's
4:39:50the big dividing those that take the
4:39:52Bible seriously or literally or what
4:39:54have you literal always begs a question
4:39:57figures of speech in my doctoral
4:40:00dissertation identified over 200 figures
4:40:03of rhetorical devices figures of speech
4:40:05in the scripture so yes there are
4:40:07figures of speech but that doesn't mean
4:40:08you don't take it literally those are
4:40:09not contradictions
4:40:11on the other hand uh those that willing
4:40:13to allegorize call it just symbolic uh
4:40:16can make it say anything you want it to
4:40:18say now why do I take the Bible
4:40:20literally for lots of reasons but let me
4:40:22show you what Jesus instructed me to do
4:40:23in Matthew 5 verse 1718 Jesus said think
4:40:26not that I come to destroy the Torah or
4:40:28the prophets I come not to destroy but
4:40:30to fulfill for verily I say unto you
4:40:33till Heaven and Earth pass one yach or
4:40:35one tit shall in no wise pass the law
4:40:37until all be fulfilled a yacht or a tit
4:40:39a yacht is that little it's one of the
4:40:4122 letters that looks like a little
4:40:43Apostrophe a title is a little
4:40:45decorative hook on some of the letters
4:40:47and what Jesus is saying here I believe
4:40:49is that to take it very very seriously
4:40:53another observation if you study the
4:40:54Bible from cover to cover you'll never
4:40:56find anyone reading the Bible not taking
4:40:58it literally when Daniel in chapter nine
4:41:00was reading Jeremiah the seven-year
4:41:02captivity he took it literally as we
4:41:05explore those conference those those
4:41:07prophecies we discover that they're
4:41:09accurate to the very day the more you
4:41:11study the Bible the more you'll Discover
4:41:13it means what it says and says what it
4:41:15means now some people say pre-trip
4:41:17eschatology is new stuff not so it's in
4:41:19the first century I won't go through all
4:41:20these lists 1 second fourth Century
4:41:22you'll find this uh the Ephraim of nus
4:41:25which is one of the most prolific
4:41:26writers in the Eastern Church uh uh in
4:41:28one they've just recently discovered one
4:41:30of his untranslated sermons for all the
4:41:32saints and elect of God are gathered
4:41:33prior to the tribulation that is to come
4:41:34and are taken to the Lord lest they see
4:41:36the confusion that is to overwhelm the
4:41:38world because of our sins goes going
4:41:39obviously is pre-trip this isn't in the
4:41:414th Century writer pre-b eschatology is
4:41:45all the way through I won't go through
4:41:47all these uh it was popularized in
4:41:50Modern Times by Emanuel Luna in 1812 and
4:41:53Edward Irving in 16 and John Derby was a
4:41:56great popularizers many many people try
4:41:58to sell the idea well he invented the
4:41:59pre-trib point of view that's not true
4:42:01just not true and um but then you have
4:42:04another barrage of people you want to be
4:42:05aware of the date Setters everybody's
4:42:08setting dates as early as the 13th
4:42:09century you can find people setting
4:42:11dates they knew when the Rapture was
4:42:12going to take place and I won't go
4:42:14through all of these John Napier the
4:42:15famous mathematician was one of them in
4:42:171688 and uh even in modern times William
4:42:20Miller in 1843 and then he was wrong
4:42:22then so he moves it to October 22nd
4:42:251844 CT Russell 1874 every you probably
4:42:28remember EC Wiis an's book 88 reasons
4:42:30for 1988 those books are cheap now
4:42:32they're probably collector's items
4:42:34Harold Camping in September 1994 and
4:42:36with the year 2000 and following you're
4:42:38going to have all kinds of characters
4:42:39doing their charts and diagrams and
4:42:41let's see what God says about this but
4:42:43that day and hour knoweth no man know
4:42:45not the angels of heaven but the father
4:42:46only watch therefore for you know not
4:42:48what hour your Lord Death come therefore
4:42:51be ye also ready for in such an hour as
4:42:52you think not the son of man cometh
4:42:55watch therefore for you know neither the
4:42:57day nor the hour where the son of man
4:42:58cometh I'm going to give you all the
4:42:59verses here there's dozens of them be
4:43:01therefore all ready also for the son of
4:43:03man cometh at an hour when you think not
4:43:05Luke 12 Acts chapter 1 even just before
4:43:08his Ascension he says he said unto them
4:43:09it is not for you to know the times of
4:43:11the Seasons which the father put in his
4:43:12own power the Rapture is
4:43:15mysteriously invisible the timing of it
4:43:19and I believe it's to catch Satan by
4:43:21surprise that's just my personal
4:43:23conjecture I think the one of the
4:43:24reasons it eludes any uh ability to
4:43:27predict is because that's God's design
4:43:30and I believe he's going to catch him by
4:43:31surprise and that means something else
4:43:33that means Satan's always had to have a
4:43:35man in the wings is the Antichrist alive
4:43:37today
4:43:39absolutely was the Antichrist alive 200
4:43:41years ago
4:43:43absolutely Satan doesn't know when that
4:43:45when the starting gun's going to be fir
4:43:46when when the Rapture Tak place he knows
4:43:48he has but little time to Spring
4:43:50whatever he's going to Spring to try to
4:43:51throw out the plan of God and his
4:43:53attempt will be this man of sin the son
4:43:55of
4:43:56predition and he has to have somebody
4:43:58ready at all times because he doesn't
4:44:00know when the conditions when God is
4:44:02going to fire that starting
4:44:04gun there's more to it but we're running
4:44:06out of time there's a disease that we're
4:44:08accused of as pre-trip types that
4:44:10probably has some valid aspects to it
4:44:14rapitis it's a uniquely American
4:44:16Dimension I don't find this so much in
4:44:19in Australia or or Europe or
4:44:21wherever uh and that's the idea that
4:44:24because the Rapture is going to be a
4:44:25week from Tuesday I mean it's it looks
4:44:27so close sometimes we just kick back we
4:44:29don't go to college don't send our kids
4:44:30to
4:44:32whatever this is a uniquely American
4:44:35dementia because in America we've had it
4:44:37so
4:44:38easy we don't meet here tonight under
4:44:40threat of of death as you as we would in
4:44:43most
4:44:45countries just because the church will
4:44:48not go through the tribulation I think I
4:44:49can prove that from the
4:44:50scripture why should we
4:44:53escape from what most what most of the
4:44:56body of Christ in most of the world for
4:45:00most of the past 2,000 years has had to
4:45:01endure it's called tribulation or more
4:45:03precisely persecution not the Great
4:45:05Tribulation not tribulation in the
4:45:07eschatological sense but
4:45:09persecution go to the sudam go to China
4:45:11go to any country and take a look what
4:45:14it takes to be a Christian there a real
4:45:17Christian no this is uniquely American
4:45:19problem but we do know that 70th week of
4:45:21Daniel is coming on the horizon the more
4:45:23we know about it the more the close it
4:45:26seems so I want to leave you as we close
4:45:28this series with a
4:45:29challenge I'm going to suggest and I
4:45:31want you to challenge this
4:45:33proposition that we are being plunged
4:45:35into a period of time about which the
4:45:37Bible says more than it does about any
4:45:40other period of time in history
4:45:42including the time that Jesus walked the
4:45:44shores of Galilee or claimed the
4:45:45mountain of
4:45:47Judea that's a Preposterous
4:45:50statement and yet the time that we're
4:45:52plunging into has more prophetic
4:45:54visibility than any other period of time
4:45:56in history including the time
4:45:58surrounding the Lord's first Advent by a
4:46:01factor of more than 8 to1 by the way now
4:46:03we go through all the different Trends
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4:46:12encourage you to look them over how do
4:46:14you look them over well there where do
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