Now returning to Daniel, chapter 2 again this
evening.
Book of Daniel, and we're at the second
chapter.
Last Tuesday, we looked at every phrase in
this second chapter.
It's a long chapter, 49 verses, and we
took time to look carefully at every phrase
as we read it through last week.
And then we had a special look at
this great image that Nebuchadnezzar saw in his
dream.
It was a revelation that God gave to
him.
You remember he saw this human form.
And this human had a head of gold,
and breasts and arms of silver, and belly
and thighs of brass, and legs and feet
of iron, and feet of iron and toes
of iron and clay.
And you remember that we had a good
look at this particular vision, and we learned
this.
We learned that God was giving to Nebuchadnezzar
a revelation of the whole course of Gentile
supremacy from its inception in the kingdom of
Babylon to its destruction when Christ, the stone
cut out without hands, would come to earth
to take the kingdom for Israel.
And we took time to look at these
metals and what they meant.
The head of gold meant the Babylonian empire
where the times of the Gentiles began.
And then we followed the Babylonian empire on
through to Belshazzar took the kingdom.
And on that night when he tried to
insult God by bringing in the vessels from
the temple in Jerusalem, and the writing came
on the wall for him, that night was
Belshazzar slain and Darius the Median took the
kingdom.
And the great Median Persia empire began.
And we found out as we talked last
week that the Median Persians were in full
supremacy in this world when our Old Testament
closed.
And I pointed out to the young students
that between the last dot in the Old
Testament and the first word in Matthew, there
are 400 silent years we sometimes call them.
400 years when God had nothing to say
to Israel.
During those 400 years Alexander the Great came
into being and the Grecian empire ruled the
world.
You remember history tells us that Alexander the
Great cried because there were no more worlds
to conquer.
We found when we opened our New Testament
in Luke's Gospel chapter 2, we found that
Caesar Augustus was ruling the world when Christ
was born.
He commanded all the world to be taxed.
So he must have been the boss.
So that we found these metals, this image
was revealing to Nebuchadnezzar and also to us,
the whole course of Gentile supremacy.
But we are going to take a special
look tonight after 10 toes alone.
You see when this image is brought before
us we see the head, and then we
look up the breast and arms of silver,
and then we look up the belly and
thighs of brass, and we look at the
legs of iron and the feet of iron
and clay, and then last of all we
look up the toes.
And we want to take a very special
look at these 10 toes this evening.
I remember someone coming to me once when
I give lectures on these 10 toes and
saying to me, are you sure there were
10 toes?
It doesn't say 10, it only says toes.
Why don't some people get as crooked as
they can be?
I said when we talk about the head
you have no argument, you don't say there
are 3 heads.
And when we talk about the arms you
don't say there are 4 arms.
And when we talk about the legs you
don't say there are 6 legs.
What are you arguing about the toes?
This is not a freak you know, this
is a real image.
And the head was there, and the arms
were there, and the legs were there.
So the toes are there, 10 toes.
But then I wouldn't need to beat somebody
by ordinary logic.
We'll work it out from scripture tonight and
we'll be sure there are 10 toes.
I think the fellow that asks those sorts
of questions is just being awkward.
And I think he needs rubs.
And if you come being awkward you'll find
I'll rub you.
Because I have no time for fools.
I'm taught in this book to avoid or
learn on foolish questions.
And I just do as the bible tells
me.
Just avoid them.
We're going to have a look at the
toes this evening.
And we'll find that this is the last
part of this image mention.
I think there's something that I should point
out to the class as we begin.
That time after time as Daniel speaks to
the king that you could never hear.
He uses two words.
Thou solace.
See verse 31.
We're at Daniel 2 verse 31.
Thou oh king solace.
Just take the two words.
Thou solace.
Behold a great image.
He's just bringing back to Nebuchadnezzar's memory the
vision that God gave him on that particular
night.
And then in verse 34 he says.
Thou solace.
Till that a stone was cut out without
hands which smote the image upon his feet.
He's just reminding Nebuchadnezzar that he had this
great revelation of this mighty image.
And then he's reminding him that his thought
being smashed to pieces.
And then again in verse 41 he said
this.
And whereof thou saw'st the feet and toes.
And then again in verse 42, 43.
42 first.
And whereof the toes of the feet.
Let's get that phrase.
Verse 43.
And whereof thou saw'st iron mixed with miry
clay.
They shall mingle themselves with the seed of
men.
And here's a prophetic statement.
But they shall not cleave one to another.
Thou saw'st the toes.
Iron and clay.
And there's another phrase in verse 45.
For as much as thou saw'st.
That's the phrase again.
That the stone was cut out without hands.
So as this king looked up this mighty
revelation that God gave him in the night
season.
The very last part that his eyes fell
upon were the toes of the image.
Seems that he was taken up first with
the head.
Then taken up with the breast and arms.
Then with the belly and thighs.
Then with the legs.
Then with the feet.
Then at last with the toes.
And so I see this as the final
projection.
You see the legs of iron and the
feet of iron.
We found this to represent the Roman Empire
in all its strength and with all its
power.
Well there's going to be a final projection
of the Roman Empire.
And it's seen in these ten toes.
This is the final projection.
You see we know this now that the
times of the Gentiles began in the middle
of the Old Testament.
Almost the middle.
In the days of Nebuchadnezzar.
And we know that the times of the
Gentiles continued to the end of the Old
Testament.
And we know that they were there in
the 400 silent years.
And we know that the times of the
Gentiles were there when the New Testament opened.
And we can see quite clearly without any
trouble at all these four great world empires
represented by these four metals.
Now when will this final projection of the
toes take place?
Has it taken place?
Is it taking place?
We're going to try to find out this
evening.
When will it take place?
But let's just leave that final projection for
the moment and these questions.
Has it taken place?
Will it take place?
When will it take place?
Leave them for the moment.
Let's try to get this settled at this
last final projection.
It's a non-natural union.
You see these toes are made parts of
clay and parts of iron.
And actually verse 43 says quite clearly One
to another.
You see while it's a final projection, alright,
it's a non-natural union.
There's something not right about it.
It almost looks like a perfect union but
it's not.
And there's a prophetic statement here, They shall
not please.
One to another.
And leave that unnatural union to the side
for a moment and try to see this,
this mutual federation.
See verse 42, let's read it very carefully
again.
And as the toes of the feet, and
we're just thinking now about the toes of
the feet, we're not thinking about anything else,
we're just thinking about the toes of the
feet.
Well parts of iron and parts of clay,
so the kingdom, let's get the word kingdom
in here, because it is the federation of
sunshine.
Now it's very wonderful that up there in
verse 42 and then 43, 41 and 42,
we have the word toes.
But when you come to verse 44 it
says in the beginning of the verse The
toes are now called kings.
That's the point I want you to get
into your mind.
You see, when they are called toes in
one verse and called kings in another, it
is called kingdom in another.
It's called kingdom.
It says, and as the toes of the
feet were part of iron and part of
clay, so the kingdom shall be partially strong
and partially broken.
So I want you to get the hold
of all that, because that's very much the
basis of what we want to get.
There must be this final projection, and it
will be an all-natural union, and it
will be a mutual federation.
Now the question we must ask ourselves this
evening is this, is this the European economic
community?
Let's be very careful and not jump anything
that we shouldn't jump.
In this United States of Europe just now
that's being formed, are these the days when
this final projection of Daniel's image is being
revealed to folks that can see with the
light of God?
You know, we want to think about the
European economic community just for a minute or
two, and I don't want to go into
any of the intricacies of the community, such
as what it will bring to us and
what it might do to us.
I don't think there's any doubt at all
whatsoever but Britain, which brings us in, Austria
and the Free State too, whether they like
it or not they've got to go with
them, will all be in the common market
before long.
And in we're going and we've got to
settle it at that.
And I don't want to go into what
this will do to farmers, or what it
will do to different kinds of businesses, this
is not my problem this evening.
I just want to look at the whole
European community, just like an ordinary 5-8
would look at it, and let's have an
honest look at it.
I think that everybody here would know this,
that General de Gaulle never wanted us to
go in.
I think you're all quite aware of that.
Many reasons have been put forward and he
put some forward why he didn't want Britain
to go in.
He didn't know if they had enough money
or not, you know that would never bluff
anybody.
You see, when General de Gaulle was alive
and this European community was formed and the
Treaty of Rome was drawn up, let me
tell you that he was one of the
big bosses in there.
And he was afraid of Britain getting in
in case he would lose a bit of
power.
Just at that moment, Britain and France were
not fusing together.
It was just something keeping them apart.
And let me tell you, it was clay.
And it was the clay that de Gaulle
was made of.
And it just kept them apart.
Now, Mr. Pompidou, you know that tonight he's
falling over himself to get Britain in now.
Now, why has the French, kindly, why has
he changed the politics of France?
Why, what's he getting so excited about?
He had a referendum the other day, he
had the vote to let the world see,
to let Europe see that all the French
people were wrong for Britain getting in.
Why has he changed his politics?
I'll tell you why.
Because he finds out now that Germany who
is in is getting bigger than France.
And if they go on the way they're
doing, the Germans are going to take the
market over.
The German nation is a mighty nation, let's
face that, whether we like the Germans or
not.
In the 1914 war, they were absolutely destroyed,
almost annihilated.
And in no time at all, you know,
they're back on their feet.
And by 1939, they're the greatest nation in
the world, whether we like it or not.
They had a fool leading them, but that's
another story.
But they were the mighty nation.
Let me say this, that in the 1939
-45 war, at the end, we blasted them.
And some of the whole cities were being
lifted and tumbled upside down, just like that,
by our blast bombers, until they were on
their knees.
And they were beat, and stripped, and defeated,
and crippled, and paralysed, and to match.
They're a better nation than we are.
They just creep out of the rubbish.
And somehow they work.
And maybe that's just the secret word.
They work hard.
And they've become the leading nation of Europe.
And now France is afraid of them.
You can see, if you look carefully, you
don't need to be a clever politician to
do this, you can see that France and
Germany are not choosing.
Why?
Because of trade, that's why.
Yes.
And Pompidou is afraid now that Billy Brant
has joined and been put out of Germany.
Because he was a sort of decent German.
He's going to lose his position before long.
And God alone knows who'll take over.
Maybe another sort of Hitler.
And now Pompidou could do with Britain in
to give him a bit of a hand.
He's changed his policy.
Because Italy sits back, you know, and they're
the sort of the queen of the markets.
Because the whole market rests on the Treaty
of Rome.
They're not fusing properly either.
Oh, they talk about a European community.
They're all pushing each other for the market,
you know.
And if we don't push hard enough when
we get in, we'll feel miserably.
If it's not fusing together, you cannot get
iron and clay together.
It won't work, it doesn't stick, does it?
You can't fuse that, you know.
Of course, the Belgians sit back and smile
because their very brainy and brilliant politicians have
this settled, that the Parliament for the economic
community will be in Brussels.
And it will.
Whether we like it or not in this
community of ours, we're going to be ruled
from Brussels before long.
Yes, that's where the Parliament will sit.
And it won't matter very much about Stormont
or Westminster either.
Let's get it all clear now what's going
on.
And our poor little Queen won't have as
much say as she has now, and she
hasn't just so much.
She'll have less.
Because we're going to have this economic community,
and we're going to have this Master Parliament
of Brussels.
And by their protest to the world that
they're a community, a federation, they won't be
stricken to one another.
I wonder, is this working out now?
Can we see this working out?
Can we see this community?
My Bible scholars 50 years ago couldn't see
this.
They couldn't possibly see this.
We can talk about this out in the
open, and everybody in the meeting knows what
we're talking about now.
It's fair, and the market's fair, and we're
going in.
And it looks like a union, and he
talks about the community.
Community, my foot.
He doesn't seem to know what he's talking
about.
You know, friends, he argues like this.
You see, Wilson, he only argues because he's
a twister.
Yes, I mean this.
I'm not against Labour or anything like that,
but I'm against Wilson.
Because he's a twister.
His own people can't trust him anymore.
They're leaving him.
No wonder.
You see, if he had been the man
that was leading Britain into the common market,
it wouldn't have mattered what it costed.
He would be a big fella.
He would be glad.
He's only arguing against Heath because he's not
doing it.
But Heath argues like this.
That Frenchmen will always be Frenchmen.
And Germans will always be Germans.
And Italians will always be Italians.
And British will be always British.
This is a pretty good argument on the
face.
But I think that what's missing in the
politicians is this.
That once the community is perfectly settled, there's
going to be a mighty European Parliament.
And in that Parliament will arise a President.
And I'll tell you one of these nights
who he will be and what he will
do.
He will not be worried about British or
French or Germans.
And he'll tell our Queen where to get
off.
My dear friends, I don't think they see
what's coming.
They just say trade, trade, trade, trade, trade.
This is all right, all right, yes.
Businessmen must have traded.
We're going to have a European Parliament.
And out of it will arise a man
who will be the man of sin.
He'll take things into his hands.
And they're laying the stage for him very
nicely.
Now, let's looking at the European community.
And when you put what we can see
as ordinary 5H against what's here.
Is this this final projection?
You know, when I was traveling in Canada
and went on up into America.
I did a bit of escape of Maine
there.
I was taken out to an old Indian
ranch one day.
This is a very pleasant memory of mine.
And I had a whole day with an
old Indian thief.
Well, you could just see him.
He's only about that size.
And my goth face reminded me of Sitting
Bull.
I'd seen pictures in the comics of this.
He was a real Indian.
But I never met the character who knew
more about prophecy than this man.
And he and I just got into this
one afternoon.
And he was with me all the way.
Then he stopped and said to me, Willie.
He couldn't say Willie, at least he didn't
say, oh, he said, Philly.
He said, Philly.
I wonder, are we pushing things too far?
Are we trying to take something that's around
us and fitting into something that's before us?
Are we sure about what we're doing?
Well, that's very honest to be like that.
I think we should always ask ourselves questions
like that.
And I said to him, well, let's make
sure.
Let's put things out that we're sure about.
I said, are you sure that the times
of the Gentiles began with Babylon?
He said, I have no troubles there at
all.
This was the time when God removed the
clouds from Israel.
This was the time when he cast away
his people, not finally or forever.
This was the time when he gave the
Gentiles the supremacy in this world.
I said, we're settled on that.
We're sure that the times of the Gentiles
began then.
You're sure that they'll come to an end,
aren't you?
Yes, I am.
And both of us turned over to Luke's
Gospel.
Have a look at this now.
It's Luke's Gospel, chapter 21.
And the Lord Jesus.
Verse 7, just to save time, and they
asked him, his disciples asked him, saying, Master,
but when shall these things be?
And what time will there be when these
things shall come to pass?
And he, our Lord Jesus, said, take heed
that you be not received.
For many shall come in my name, saying,
I am Christ.
And the times are often near.
Verse 9, but when ye shall hear of
wars and commotions, be not terrified.
For these things must first come to pass,
but the end is not by and by.
Then he said unto them, nations shall rise
against nations, and kingdom against kingdom, and great
earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines,
and pestilences, and fearful sights, and great signs
shall there be from heaven.
Still, to save time, look on down at
verse 23.
But woe unto them that are with child,
and to them that give suck in those
days.
Sometimes I'm reminded of this very phrase when
I see the Vietnam woman running with her
little babies in their arms these nights on
the TV.
It annoys me.
But woe unto them that are with suck,
and to them that give suck in those
days.
For there shall be great distress in the
land, and wrath upon this people.
And they shall fall by the edge of
the sword, and shall be led away captive
into all nations.
And Jerusalem, let's get this word correct now,
Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles.
Until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Now you can't go wrong there.
There's going to be an end to the
times of the Gentiles.
They began with Nebuchadnezzar.
They will come to an end.
And at the very end they'll be still
treading down Jerusalem.
Now I want you to get that into
your mind because we're going out looking for
clues now about this common market.
Let's go to the book of Revelation chapter
11.
The book of the Revelation.
And there was given me a reed like
unto a rod, and the angel stood saying,
Rise, and measure the temple of God, and
the altar, and them that worship therein.
But the court which is without the temple
leave out, and measure it not.
For it is given unto the Gentiles.
And the holy city shall they tread on
the foot forty and two months.
Now you can't make any mistakes about Jerusalem
here, the holy city.
It can't be the heavenly Jerusalem because the
Gentiles will never tread it on the foot.
That's one thing that's absolutely sure.
So you can't spiritualize this even if you
wanted to.
You'll have to keep it the old city
of Jerusalem, the holy city it's called sometimes.
Now the thing that we find here as
we look into this, is that there is
going to be a temple in the old
city of Jerusalem.
And the temple is going to be built,
and the Gentiles are going to tread it
down, and they'll use the court of it.
You know it's only the other week that
Mr. Sam McCormick sitting back there gave me
that piece of paper, and I wouldn't like
to lose it.
It says the New York Times recently carried
a full page ad for the purpose of
collecting funds for the rebuilding of Solomon's Temple.
The ad was sponsored by orthodox Jews.
It is also reported that the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem is offering courses on the preparation
of sacrifices.
These events point up that the great tribulation
is not far away.
And remember that the sequence of events is
rapture before tribulation.
Now is it true, and I think this
makes it perfectly clear that it is, that
the Jews are thinking at this moment of
rebuilding the temple.
We've got an ad in the New York
Times.
Now let me tell you as the times
of the Gentiles come to an end, the
temple will be there.
This revelation says, rise and measure the temple
of God.
And the court which is without the temple,
leave out and measure it not.
For it is given unto the Gentiles, and
the holy city shall they tread on the
foot forty and two months.
I think you know what forty two months
is, it's three and a half years, don't
you know that?
And if you read the next verse there's
another clue, I will give power unto my
two witnesses.
Because in those terrible times God is going
to have witnesses.
And they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred
and three score days.
And Sir Robert Anderson found out that the
prophetic year.
I know that our calendar year 365 and
once in four we have an extra day,
and the solar year is 365 and a
quarter.
But I know that the prophetic year is
360.
And if you multiply 360 by three and
a half, you'll find it comes to one
thousand three score, one thousand two hundred and
three score days.
It's the same period, it's three and a
half years.
Now watch me, and I want you to
get this.
As we come to the end of this
period, the times of the Gentiles.
One thing is sure, there'll be tent holes
somewhere.
There'll be temples.
Tolls, temple, time.
Special time, three and a half years right
at the end.
I want you to get tolls, and temple,
and time into your mind tonight, three clues.
I want you to get that very carefully.
You know, when Paul was writing to the
Thessalonians, let's have a look at this.
2nd Thessalonians, and that's the second chapter.
2nd Thessalonians chapter two.
Just to get the proper sense, let's read
it.
Now we beseech you, brethren, he's writing the
saints.
By the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto him.
That's the basis of his appeal.
He says, this is going to happen first.
The coming of our Lord Jesus, and our
gathering together unto him.
I will beseech you by that.
That ye be not soon shaken in mind,
or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by
word, nor by letter asked from us.
Somebody had written a letter, and put Paul's
name to it, as if it came from
him, and had disturbed these young believers.
But he's appealing to them, by the coming
of Christ, and our gathering together unto him,
that they be not soon shaken in mind.
It is read, no man deceive you by
any means.
For that they shall not come, except they
come a-falling away first.
And that man of sin be revealed, the
son of perdition.
Who opposes and exalteth himself above all that
is called God, or that is worshipped.
So that he as God, sittheth in the
temple of God.
Do you get that?
Because I can tell you, you know, that
in the very last of this dispensation, we're
going to see the temples.
And at the same time, we're going to
see the temple.
And at the same time, there's going to
be a period of time, three and a
half years, which we'll go through in a
moment.
And then there's going to be this tyrant.
Because that's another thing.
He's going to arise out of these temples,
we'll see in a moment, and sit in
this very temple that we're building.
And he's going to say terrible things against
God, and I want to call that tongue.
His tongue will detect it.
We're trying to get clues, lads, to detect
the thing.
And I think we need to work on
the tools.
And then we need to work on the
temple, and we need to work on the
time, and the tyrant, and the tongue.
And here he is, sitting in the temple
of God.
Showing himself that he is God, opposing and
exalting himself above all that is called God.
Now we've only gathered the clues up, we
need to go out and do the work
now.
And the police are working hard to get
all the clues, and then they get out
on the job and do it properly.
Got to do it properly.
Now let's go back to the book of
Daniel.
And we're at chapter seven this time.
Daniel, chapter seven.
Now verse one, and what's the first phrase?
In the first year of Belshazzar, king of
Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of
his head upon his head.
Now if you're quick at all, you will
see now that the book of Daniel is
not written chapter by chapter in chronological order.
You're quick enough to know that.
Well chapter five was the last year of
Belshazzar.
In that night Belshazzar died.
He died in chapter five.
That was the night the writing was on
the wall.
Well the chapters are not in chronological order.
First four chapters you remember tells us all
about Ned, you could never.
Then that Belshazzar's feast came and he died
that night.
Then the chapter six was Darius the Median,
we'll come to that and see him and
the throne and we're back to Belshazzar now.
And this is the way before chapter five,
this is the first year of Belshazzar, so
I think you should get that.
I think if these little things are pointed
out it will keep you right.
Now Daniel had the vision that first year
that Belshazzar ends, and here it was.
Verse two, Daniel spake and said, I saw
in my vision by night and behold the
four winds of the heavens drove upon the
great sea.
And four great beasts came up from the
sea, diverse one from another.
Now I don't want to go into the
incidentals here again because we're going to come
to chapter seven and I'll have to do
it properly.
I'm only going back here to have a
look at these four beasts quickly.
The first one, the first was like a
lion, we don't need any more.
Verse five, behold another beast a second, like
a bear.
Verse six, after this I beheld and lo
another like a leopard.
There's the first three, one like a lion,
one like a beast, one like a leopard.
Verse seven, after this I saw in the
night visions and behold a fourth beast, dreadful
and terrible.
No animal metaphor used here, just dreadful and
terrible, strong exceedingly.
It had great iron teeth, and it dissolved
in breaking pieces, and stamped the desert you
with the feet of it.
It was diverse from all the beasts that
were before it.
And the last thing that's said about it
here is that it had ten horns.
I want you to think carefully, we had
four metals, and we could see the four
Gentile world empires, Babylon, Medusa, Persia, Greece and
Rome.
I think that we're getting a view of
the same thing over again, with incidentals put
in that we'll come to when we want
to deal with them.
But the only thing I want you to
see that this time, the fourth is not
ten toes, it's ten horns.
Ten horns, but the ten is there this
time, alright.
That would help our critic out a wee
bit.
Here's the ten horns, now we don't want
to waste time there, I want you to
get this.
Verse 8, I considered the horns, and behold
there came up among them.
There came up among what?
There came up among the ten, another little
horn, before whom there were three of the
first horns plucked up by the lute.
And behold in this horn were eyes, like
the eyes of a man, and a mouth.
Oh, we were talking about tongue and lint
ago.
This is the Antichrist, this little horn.
This is the man of scent.
This is the man that will speak great
swelling words against God.
And you know Daniel wanted to know more
about these beasts.
And here's what he had.
Verse 16, I came near unto one of
them that stood by and asked him the
truth of all this.
So he told me and made me know
the interpretation of the things.
These great beasts which are for our four
kings.
We can't go wrong with that, can we?
Which shall arise out of the earth.
Don't worry about the saints taking the kingdom
just for a moment.
Verse 19, then I would know the truth
of the fourth beast.
Oh, there's a whole lot of us have
been like that.
Which was diverse from all the others, exceeding
dreadful, whose teeth were the vines, nails of
brass, which devour and break in pieces so
long.
And he wanted to know of the ten
horns that were in his head and of
the other which came up and before whom
he fell.
Even of that horn that had eyes and
a mouth that spake very great things whose
look was more sparse than the seven.
And then he gets the truth of the
whole thing.
Verse 23, thus he said.
The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom
upon the earth.
Now, that's quite simple, isn't it?
Because the fourth one was wrong, wasn't it?
There isn't any problem there, I don't think
you'll get a problem.
It was the fourth king, the fourth gen
-five kingdom, of course.
Which shall be diverse from all kingdoms and
shall devour the whole earth.
So it did.
And set it down, break it in pieces.
And the ten horns out of this kingdom
are ten kings that shall arise.
And the toes were called kings.
And the horns were called kings.
You got that?
Because that was written there a long time
ago.
Before I was born a long time.
Now unto these ten that couldn't leave together,
another shall rise up to them and he
shall be diverse from the first.
And he shall subdue three kings and he
shall speak great words against the most high.
And shall wear out the saints of the
most high and think to change times and
laws.
And they shall be given into his hand
until a time and times and the dividing
of time.
Now that was written in the original in
Syriac.
Not in Hebrew or Greek.
And it's the Syriac way of saying three
and a half.
Times, which would be two.
And time and the dividing of time is
three and a half.
And forty two months is three and a
half and it's the same time.
And it's the same silence.
And it's the same tongue.
And it's the same clothes.
I don't know what they're all puzzled about.
Yes I want you to get the hold
of this you know.
You know I listen to Lord Boothby who
loves to be called Bob Boothby.
And he's a great character.
He'd have my vote for almost anything.
Because he's a big enough man to say
what should be said.
And I admire him for this.
And I heard him talking to Hugh Gateskill
who was the honourable Hugh Gateskill.
Who was the man in charge of the
Labour Party before Wilson got on his feet.
And let me tell you this that Gateskill
was a gentleman.
And I think one of the best men
the Labour Party will ever have in this
world.
That was a great character and it was
a great pity for the Labour Party that
they lost him.
And I heard Bob Boothby say to Hugh
Gateskill one evening.
Do you believe that there will be an
economic European community?
He said I do.
Not all together on foot but I do.
Yes I think it will come.
He said do you think it's just going
to be a market shoe?
That it's going to be an economic community?
He said I do, yes I do.
He said tell me this now, do you
believe that you can unite economically and still
have ten nations having a different foreign policy?
Which is a pretty good question.
Because I would want to know how you
could unite economically and yet have a different
foreign policy.
I think you've got to unite politically too.
Because this is exactly what is going to
happen here.
These ten tools are juggling at this moment
for power.
And they're all going to go in because
they see a market.
And the market is taking them in and
I suppose as businessmen there's something to be
said for going in.
Because this is a market.
But I think the thing they're missing is
this.
That it's going to be more than a
market.
It's going to be a political union too.
And the boss will not be the queen.
Nor Westminster either.
There's somebody going to arise out of the
tent.
I wish you could talk to them but
you can't talk to them.
They just know more than you so they
think.
I want you to get the hold of
this you know.
I would have loved on that occasion to
bop in you know.
To boss Hugh Gates here and Lord Bruce
Lee and say this.
I believe that if you go in for
an economic unity.
It must of necessity switch round to be
a political unity.
And then it will turn round to be
a religious unity.
Because they'll have to have a common church
before long.
And they will you know.
They'll have a common church.
Let me say this whether it fits you
or not.
The common church will be the Roman church.
For the Roman Catholic church will rule this
world before very long.
Make you no mistakes about that now.
Because this man that will arise will use
the Scarlet Woman.
And this is how he'll get a great
bit of his support.
The Roman church would do things to make
you support them that Christians couldn't do.
We're living in dreadful times and I think
the people are not just aware of it.
We may have to die yet for our
faith.
I wonder are we prepared for that.
You know this is a tremendous thing.
That all this is here in this book.
And I think you see when you get
this.
These toes.
And this temple.
And this time.
And this silence.
And this tongue are all correctly before you.
You're beginning to see that we're drifting into
those very gears even now.
I think you can see these ten toes
growing.
I think you can see that they're not
cleaving together.
I think you can see that they're trying
to get it over to the world that
they're a real community.
And before long this parliament will be set
up in Brussels.
And before long there will be a man
arise.
And this poor world will be having for
its last 42 months of destruction.
If Jesus Christ is to come for his
church seven years before the toes are smashed.
We must be near to the Lord's coming
tonight.
Man and woman make no mistake about this.
We're on the verge of Christ's coming.
I'll come you know.
He said I will come.
And we will come.
And as he came in this midnight hour.
We should rise to meet him those of
us who are saved by grace.
Doesn't make a matter which leg you fly.
Saved by grace rise to meet the Lord
in the air.
Friends they would soon build the temple then.
And the economic community would go to hell.
And they'll have the Antichrist at its head
before long.
And they'll have a common church in this
world which will be the Roman church.
I want you to get the hold of
this before we go any further.
I think you've followed what I've been doing.
This final projection.
This unnatural union.
This mutual federation.
These actual divisions.
This political leader.
I want you to get this.
Let's go to Revelation 13 just for a
moment or two.
Revelation 13.
Verse 1.
John speaking.
John the Apostle.
And I stood upon the sand of the
sea and saw a beast rise up out
of the sea.
Having seven heads and ten horns.
What's the tens?
And upon his horns ten crowns.
Or ten kings.
Upon his head the name of Blasphemy.
And the beast which I saw was like
unto a leopard.
And its feet were as the feet of
a bear.
And its mouth as the mouth of a
lion.
All the things that we'll need to note
one day in these other Gentile powers will
be there.
Plus this.
And the dragon gave him his part.
Now when we talk about the dragon who
do we mean?
Just go back into chapter 12 and read
verse 9.
And the great dragon was cast out.
That old serpent called the devil and Satan
which deceives the world.
Now you couldn't make a mistake with that
if you tried.
I think the Holy Ghost makes it that
you can't make a mistake.
He uses every name for the devil.
The dragon, that old serpent called the devil
and Satan which deceives.
The old deceiver.
I think all the names are there.
You can't make a mistake with that.
Now it's the devil that's going to give
this man power.
Because this beast that we're seeing just here
in Revelation 13 is this man that's going
to arise.
He's going to be a carter seller.
I've met a whole lot of folk in
life who thought they would be the Antichrist.
The man that thinks that couldn't break Christmas
cards.
Sin, a man that does sin, that must
be a fool.
My dear this man is going to be
somebody, the devil is not going to take
up a fool you know.
He's going to be a very clever character.
But the devil will give him more wisdom
than he needs for to do these diabolical
things.
Now I want you to get this.
The devil, we're at Revelation 13 verse 2
at the end of the verse.
The dragon gave him his power and his
feet and great authority.
I saw one of his heads as well
wounded to death, his deadly wound was healed.
And all the world wondered after the beast.
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power
unto the beast.
Of course this is what the devil is
working for, to get the world to worship
him.
And they worshipped the beast too.
Saying who is like unto the beast?
Who is able to make war with him?
And there was given unto him a mouth,
speaking great things and blasphemies.
And power was given unto him to continue
forty and two months, is that the same
time?
Is that the same time then?
Is that the same song?
Trend is this for man that we're rising
unto the toes.
I think the book is too clear for
anybody to make a mistake.
I think that the babes in Christ here
can grasp it.
We're on the verge of things aren't we?
Ah these ten toes are appearing today.
Mr. Heath has taken us into this.
Friends these toes will be smashed by Christ's
return.
The stone cut out without hands will come
back and smash the toes.
This is what Daniel saw.
Thou shalt kill a stone.
Christ is the stone that the builders rejected.
You see if we were going to Zechariah
tonight 14 we would find that when Christ
comes back to this earth.
We're not talking about him coming to the
air.
He'll come to the air at any moment
but he'll come to the air seven years
after that.
We'll look that up in Daniel one night
to make you sure about those seven years.
Look friend when he comes to the earth
his feet should stand in that day on
the Mount of Olives.
You know it's his feet that will crush
the ten toes.
He'll smash it for them.
He'll tread on their toes in a way
they've never thought about.
And then he'll take the kingdom.
And Jesus shall reign.
The one thing for us to get is
not that we know the book.
We know where to go.
We know what to read.
We know what to say.
One thing for us to get is we're
on the last hour.
We're on the last day.
Ah let's awake.
Let's hope to be saved you know.
You are your brother's people.
That's all brother exclusivism.
It annoys me.
They can shut themselves in a hall and
say you either go to hell or come
to us.
Who taught you like that?
Our people perished and on the other side
of the fence tonight.
And even of the Roman Catholics you've got
a duty to them.
Go and tell them about Christ.
Go and tell them about the cross.
Go and tell them about the precious blood.
It's time we awoke up.
Oh that God would awaken us.
I believe he has led us into this
book for this very purpose.
And we are going to see mighty things.
As we go through Daniel.
God bless you.
9.83 it's an old hymn tonight.
When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound.
Time shall be no more.
On the morning breaks eternal bright and fair.
When the shaves of earth shall gather over
on the other shore.
And the rule is called of yonder.
I'll be there.
9.83 please.
When the lamb shall come upon the burning
land.
Let me walk upon the
lonely land.
Dear Lord part us in my fear.
Take us to our homes in safety.
And bless us for thy holy namesake.
Amen.