The book of Daniel, and we're at chapter
7, and I'm trying to get through this
mighty difficult chapter this evening, 20 verses, because
I feel that we must take them all
together if we're to get the truth the
way the Lord intended us to get it.
I've called this chapter a chapter of great
faith, and it's certainly one of the great
chapters of our Bible.
I give Bible readings for a fortnight once,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, for two weeks,
on the great chapters of the Bible, taking
a great chapter every night.
And this is one of the great chapters,
and remember while I believe it is one
of the great chapters of the Bible, it
is not the greatest chapter in Daniel, because
I think the greatest chapter in Daniel is
yet to come.
I'm perfectly sure that it's not chapter 8,
chapter 7, or chapter 8, or even chapter
9, or even chapter 10.
I believe that when we come to this
mighty chapter, chapter 11, I think we're going
to see big things.
But the chapter that we're looking at tonight,
it's really a great chapter because the word
great is in the chapter nine times.
See verse 2, it says, Behold the four
winds of the heavens drove upon the great
sea.
And in verse 3, it says, And four
great beasts.
And verse 7 says, After this I saw
in the night visions, and behold the fourth
beast, dreadful and terrible, strong exceedingly, and it
had great eyes and teeth.
See at the end of verse 8, there
was a man and a mouth speaking great
things.
And if you go through the chapter carefully,
you'll find the word great is in the
chapter nine times.
So it's right to say that this is
a great chapter.
I want to point out that this is
Daniel's great vision.
You know, when Daniel was speaking about the
vision that Nebuchadnezzar had in chapter 2, we
must remember that that was Nebuchadnezzar's vision.
God gave it to Nebuchadnezzar.
And when Daniel interpreted the writing on the
wall in chapter 5, remember the writing was
God's writing.
It was not a revelation given to Daniel.
Daniel was only the interpreter on those occasions.
And this is the first time that God
has come to Daniel when he was alone
upon his bed, and he gave him one
of the greatest visions any man on this
planet ever received.
And it's this great vision that was given
to Daniel that we want to look at
very carefully this evening.
Now let's start at verse 1.
Daniel 7 verse 1.
In the first year of Belshazzar king of
Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of
his head upon his bed.
All this happened as Daniel lay upon his
bed.
Then he wrote the dream and told the
sum of the matters.
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my
vision by night and behold the four winds
of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
You know this great sea came before him.
And of course when Daniel uses the phrase
the great sea, he knew that to be
a geographical location.
It's very interesting to note in the history
of Israel that the history right through has
been connected with seas.
You remember they only became a liberated, redeemed
nation when they came through the Red Sea.
That's where the nation came out and was
seen as a redeemed and liberated people.
And all through the history they've been connected
with the Red Sea.
And there are wonderful records concerning this nation
connected with the Sea of Galilee.
I think that we could take a long
time in saying the wonderful things that the
Lord did, not only on the Sea of
Galilee but under the Sea of Galilee and
beside the Sea of Galilee and with the
Sea of Galilee.
He calmed the storm there.
And of course there's another sea, there's the
Dead Sea.
And it's playing a great part at this
moment in the newest will and it may
play a greater part in the days to
come in the history of this nation.
But you see all these seas, the Red
Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea,
these are little seas.
They're not big seas.
But the great sea, well that's the Mediterranean
Sea that lies beside the west coast of
Israel.
You know when Joshua was going into the
land, let's go to Joshua chapter 1 just
for a moment, book of Joshua, and we're
at the first chapter.
And God is speaking to Joshua and he's
assuring him of this in chapter 1 verse
3.
He says, every place the soul of your
foot shall tread upon, that have I given
unto you as I said unto Moses.
From the wilderness, that's right down in the
south of the land of Palestine today, the
wilderness of Judea of course.
From the wilderness of this Lebanon, that's right
up north as you know the land of
Palestine so he's given the southerly and the
northerly point.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto
the great river, the river Euphrates.
And that lies way over in the Syrian
desert coming up along the east coast of
what shall yet be Israel.
And God is giving him dimensions here.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto
the great river, the river Euphrates, all the
land of the Hittites.
And unto the great sea, toward the going
down of the sun.
Where does the sun go down?
In the west.
Tell me what sea touches Palestine on the
west?
You know them up don't you?
When I went to school I always knew
on this side was the west.
I was never clever but I knew that.
The teacher asked me where the west was,
I knew it was over there.
Wasn't clever but I knew it was there
still.
Down the west.
And if you look up the map of
when you come over to the west, you'll
find that the great wonderful blue waters of
the Mediterranean washed the western shores of Palestine.
It was called the great sea.
These are the geographical location of the land
that God gave to Israel.
Where are the boys in this meeting who
spiritualize Israel?
I always want to know what you do
with the geographical locations.
Some of them say to me you know
God didn't really give them a land, it's
just a spiritual thing is it now?
Is Lebanon a spiritual thing?
Is the river Euphrates?
Is the wilderness of Judea?
Is the Mediterranean Sea?
You must be daft.
I have a great sympathy for you because
there's something wrong with you.
My eye just gets fed up looking at
these boys who talk nonsense.
This is a land and it has got
geographical locations and it belongs to Israel and
there's nobody going to take it off from
either.
They can try it again but they'll never
lose it.
And so the great sea, something was happening
on the great sea or along the coasts
of the great sea.
Daniel was on his bed, God was giving
him a vision and there was a storm,
the four winds of heaven.
You know there was a great commotion coming
up and it had to do with the
land surrounding the great sea.
Yes this is the vision me God, I
hope you can see it.
I hope you can see the Mediterranean, I
hope you can see the land.
And there was a great commotion going on
and Daniel was watching.
Now watch very carefully again.
He says verse 3, and four great beasts
came up from the sea diverse one from
another.
They were all different.
Now let's have a look at them one
by one.
The first was like a lion, just this
difference and had eagle's wings.
There was the strength and the fierceness and
the ferocity of the lion plus a swiftness
that had to be reckoned with.
He's looking at this beast, it's a lion
but it's got wings.
And I beheld till the wings thereof were
plucked.
Somewhere along the course of history as regards
this beast, it was going to be slowed
down.
Somebody was clipping its wings, you've heard that
before, plucked is the word here.
And it says, and it was lifted up
from the earth and made stand upon the
feet of a man.
And a man's heart was given unto it.
You know somewhere along the history of this
thing, there's a change comes in it.
Of course we'll be looking at these four
beasts and we'll be relating them to the
four metals of the image in chapter 2.
And you remember the head of gold there
was Babylon.
And I think that we'll find out that
this was Babylon, this lion.
It's not an image of course, but it's
an image now with a bit of history
put in because Babylon did get slowed up
you know.
Medjugorje was driven out into the fields and
at last he had a man's heart, he
was changed you know.
You remember how he used to be warlike
and would gore people's eyes out.
And at last he would say, but take
your time with the animals for the moment
and so I'll just put in a tickly
bit as we go along.
Have a look at the second one, verse
5.
And behold another beast, a second, like a
bear, and it raised up itself on one
side.
Seemed to be raised up on one, it
seemed to be bigger on one side than
another.
You know when we were looking at the
metals, the four great world empires, the first
one was Babylon.
The second was Medo-Persia.
You see these two great nations joined together
to become one world empire.
Ah, but the Medes were bigger than the
Persians.
It was Darius the Median you know that
took the Babylonian kingdom after all.
And this bear, bigger on one side than
another.
And as he looked at the bear, it
had three ribs in the mouth of it,
between the teeth of it.
It was devouring and they said thus unto
it, arise devour much flesh.
It had already devoured something, it was in
the act of devouring and it was certainly
going to devour far more.
And I think you know we'll find out
that this is like the breast and arms
of silver, this is Medo-Persia.
Daniel was getting a vision of his own,
but he could understand the relationship between the
head of gold and the lion, and the
breast and arms of silver and the bear.
He would find that quite well.
And then verse six, after this I beheld
and lo another, that is another beast, like
a leopard this time, which had upon the
back of it four wings of a fowl.
The beast also had four heads.
A leopard?
That's a very swift animal isn't it?
Well you know when we looked at these
four metals we found out that the head
of gold was Babylon, like the lion, and
the breast and arms of silver Medo-Persia,
like the bear.
Well the belly and thighs of brass would
be like Greece, the leopard.
And this is very wonderful because Greece as
a world empire never came into being in
the Old Testament at all.
When your Old Testament ends it is Medo
-Persia that's in control, and then in between
your Old Testament and your New Testament there
are 400 silent years, and in the midst
of those Alexander the Great ran across Europe
like a leopard, and took Medo-Persia by
the throat.
But the thing is that Alexander died as
a young man, somewhere in his thirties.
And after seizing the kingdom and then dying,
his kingdom was divided into four, and the
historians here who know history better than I
do, because we're in history now, Alexander the
Great's world empire was divided into four, four
wings, four heads.
Keep all books you have you know, if
you would take your time with it, it's
all perfectly put together you know, must be,
God wrote it.
Now we've seen these three beasts, the lion,
and the bear, and the leopard, they're seven.
After this I saw in the night visions
and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible
and strong exceedingly.
You'll notice there's no animal name given.
This fourth one was a monster of some
kind.
We talk about the Loch Ness monster don't
we?
Well you'll wait a long time up at
Loch Ness I believe before you see it
all right.
But there's no doubt that Daniel saw a
monster, no name can be given, it's not
like a lion, it's not like a bear,
it's not like a leopard, it's just dreadful
and terrible and strong exceedingly and it had
great iron teeth.
It devoured and broke in pieces and stamped
the residue with the feet of it.
And it was diverged from all the beasts
that were before it, and then almost like
a horse clipper chaise, and it had ten
horns.
It's very funny if you're describing the beast
that you wouldn't start with its horns.
And it would be very funny if you
were describing the beast that had ten horns
that you didn't start with them.
Even it was a monster.
You see it seems to me that Daniel
had a vision of a monstrous beast, a
cruel thing, a strong thing, a thing that
tore asunder everything in front of it.
And then as the vision came out and
out and out, last of all came ten
horns.
That's pretty good isn't it?
Because that's the way it's written.
Because this fourth one is the Roman Empire.
And you know it was very wonderful when
we were in Daniel chapter 2 that we
noticed this, that this fourth beast, the fourth
metal, last of all sprung forth ten toes.
Because the ten toes are the last projection.
When we were there, you know, we were
thinking about the common market.
And the common market is almost set now.
The European Economic Community, as Mr Heath says.
These are the ten toes of Daniel's image.
These are the ten horns.
They're appearing last of all.
So this book is up to date tonight.
This is a wonderful thing that Daniel's getting.
Now watch this.
Verse 8.
He says, I considered the horns and behold
there came up among them another little horn.
Now out of the ten, this is something
that we didn't see in the toes, but
something that I told you about when we
were there.
Because I said that if we have an
economic community, I heard Bob Brisby, who is
Lord Brisby, but who loves to be called
Bob Brisby.
I heard Bob Brisby say to the Honorable
Hugh Gates still once, do you believe that
there will be an economic community?
He said, of course I do.
He said, do you mean that the nations
in Europe, the great ones, will join together
and put all their eggs into one basket
and have a common market?
I do.
He said, do you believe that you can
be economically united while you might have a
different foreign policy?
You would like to tell me that Germany
and Italy and France and Britain are going
to unite, put their eggs into one basket
to make it easy, and yet all have
a different foreign policy?
You couldn't do it.
They will have to unite economically, and then
they'll have to unite governmentally.
And there's going to be one great gigantic
Parliament of Europe.
And if you have this European Parliament, and
it will sit at Brussels, they know where
it will sit now, then out of it
you must have a President.
And let me tell you, they're going to
see him before long.
And the President may well be the little
horn of Daniel's ten horns.
Now you watch it very carefully now.
And remember, we're not in a hurry tonight.
You have to walk to the car in
the dark.
God bless you.
Watch this now.
Verse 8, I considered the horns and behold
there came up among them another little horn,
before whom there were three of the first
horns plucked up by the roots.
Now you see, it's no use asking me
to expand that, because that's going to happen
one of these days.
They're not going to have it all fun,
you know, around this economic table.
They're going to have a bit of a
squabble, and there might be three of them
lost in the process.
Never mind, scripture will interpret itself when the
time comes.
And I want you to notice this, behold
in this horn were eyes like the eyes
of a man.
Because this is a man, and a mouth
speaking great things.
Two things I want the class to underline,
you can underline them in your mind or
underline them in your Bible if you like.
And Mark wants you to get that into
your mind now.
It is the vision that Daniel had.
He can see the Mediterranean, he can see
the land surrounding it, he can see these
beasts coming up, he can see the lion,
he can see the bear, he can see
the leopard, he can see the monster, and
he can see last of all the ten
horns appearing.
I'm sure he didn't know that it would
be a way down 1972, but here they
are appearing, and out of them a little
horn, a man, a man with a mouth,
a mouth that will speak against God.
So you're beginning to see this, are you?
Well, we have a long way to go,
you'll see it clear again.
Now he begins to consider things, he says,
I beheld, I watched this thing, it went
on for a time, I beheld till the
thorns were cast down, and the Ancient of
Days had set, and that's another title of
God's.
God is the Ancient of Days, the one
who had made a beginning of days and
an end of life, whose garment was white
as snow, and the hair of his head
like pure wool, his thorn was like the
fiery flame, and his squeals as the burning
fire, and you would know that God if
I hadn't told you even, a fiery stream
intrigued and came forth from before him, thousands,
thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times
ten thousand stood before him.
You would know this as God, and all
the created beings that attend him, and all
the angels that worshipped him.
Verse 11, I beheld then, he's still watching
this, I beheld because of the voice of
the great words which the horns take, of
this Moses speaking against God, I beheld even
till the beast was slain, because God will
take this common market in hand, and this
man in hand too, till the beast was
slain and his body destroyed and given to
the burning flame, as concerning the rest of
the beasts, they had their dominion taken away,
yet their lives were too long for a
season and time.
We'll come to the truth of this in
a moment.
I saw in the night visions and behold,
one like the Son of Man, we had
a lovely title way back there, because that's
what you call our Lord Jesus.
He was known as the Son of Man.
I beheld and behold, one like the Son
of Man came with the clouds of heaven,
and came to the ancient of days, and
they brought him near before him, and there
was given him dominion and glory and a
kingdom that all people and nations and languages
should serve him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall
not pass away, and his kingdom that which
shall not be destroyed.
He had a good old dream, hadn't he?
You're only looking at the vision.
You're lying in bed somewhere, and God's talking
to him, and God's showing him the whole
course of human history, and doing it in
a wonderful way, as if he were drawing
on a blackboard.
Daniel could see it all, and could even
see Christ coming back to this earth, and
dealing with the Antichrist and the common market,
and setting up an everlasting kingdom which shall
never end.
That was pretty good going for Daniel, wasn't
it?
Remember he was a baboon.
Remember he was a lone ranger.
But God can bless you anywhere.
Don't forget that.
Oh, we're only really starting now, because that
just sets the stage, doesn't it?
Verse 15.
Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the
midst of my body, and the Rosalites should
really put that on the mantelpiece, because they
don't believe that there's a spirit in the
midst of your body.
They say this word spirit, this Hebrew word
spirit, means breath.
Oh, I know it means breath, but it
means more than breath, dear.
Paul prayed for the Thessalonians that your body,
and soul, and spirit might be preserved blameless
unto the coming of the Lord.
Well, it's nice to have a blameless breath,
but that's not what Paul was talking about.
You know, have a look at it, do
you see?
He says, I, Daniel, was grieved in my
spirit in the midst of my body.
You're not telling me his breath was grieved,
are you?
Well, that would be dust, because if you
go through the Scriptures and translate the word
spirit breath every time, you'll see how daft
the Rosalites are.
That's all you would need to do.
You couldn't translate some verses in this book
by the word breath, you couldn't do it
here.
I, Daniel, was grieved in my breath.
Oh, baloney.
Send them to the back of the class.
I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit in
the midst of my body.
Way down in the heart and depths of
this man, he was grieved, and the visions
of my head troubled me.
And I came near unto one of them
that stood by and asked him the truth
of all this.
In his dream he's talking to one of
these created beings.
So he told me and made me know
the interpretation of the things.
Now watch till you see if I was
totally right.
These great beasts, which are four, are four
kings.
No bother with it now, is there?
Four beasts are four kings.
Watch it again.
Which shall arise out of the earth?
Oh, I know Daniel said they came out
of the sea.
I know all about that.
He was looking at the Mediterranean Sea and
out of the land adjoining it, which is
Europe.
These kings came because when Babylon took over,
they came right across and needed Persia and
Greece and Rome.
So the whole Mediterranean countries belong to Rome.
But here's the angel interpreting.
These great beasts, which are four, are four
kings.
No problem with that now.
Which shall arise out of the earth?
But the saints of the most high shall
take the kingdom.
I'd love to tell Heath that, but he
wouldn't know.
He'd know more about a yacht.
Yes, I'd love to tell him he'll take
the kingdom sooner or later.
First will be the saints of God and
the boys that are fighting for the few
green fields that we have.
And we have only a few green fields
on either side of this border.
The boys that are fighting would need to
know that sooner or later the saints are
going to take it all and there'll neither
be Paisley nor Craig nor Faulkner in it.
Our Lord will settle this thing.
Make thee no mistake and that's nearer settled
than what you believe.
Well, let's get this bit right anyway.
The four kings, but the saints of the
most high shall take the kingdom and possess
the kingdom forever, even forever and ever, just
to make it absolutely watertight forever and ever.
Now, Daniel was a great character.
He says, then, you know, he's not content
when you give him the answer.
Sometimes some of the young fellows come to
me, bless them, and they say, Mr. Morgan,
I want to know this.
And when you tell them, you know, they'll
probe on.
And I don't mind a wee fellow that
probes on.
He wants to know the thing right.
So Daniel was just like this.
He says, then, then I would know the
truth of the fourth beast.
This is the one.
Somehow he knew all the rest of them.
But there's something about this one that he
wants to know.
Then I would know the truth of the
fourth beast, which was diverse from all the
other, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron,
and of nails of grass, which devoured brick
and peaches, stamped the leather Jew with his
feet.
And of the ten horns, he's not only
wanting to know about the beast, he says,
I want to know about these horns that
came up.
Need to tell me more about that.
And of the other which came up, he
says, I want to know about him too.
I want to know about the beast, I
want to know about the ten horns, I
want to know about this little horn.
Even of the horn that had eyes, and
a mouth that spake very great things, whose
look was more stout than his fellows.
He says, I want to know about it.
I beheld, and the same horn, this man,
this mouth, made war with the saviours.
Oh yes, you know, we'll be coming to
the point in a moment where one of
these days the Lord is going to come
and take the church home.
And the common market will be at its
height.
And this man will arise out of the
common market.
And there'll be a number of witnesses that
God will have on the earth at that
time.
And they won't bow down and worship him
the way he wants them to.
And he'll make war with them.
Don't be mixing up the saints of the
tribulation period with the church.
Because he will never make war with us.
We're clearing out one of these nights.
We can keep it.
Don't mix it up now.
He's going to make war with the saints
that will be there at that time, and
we'll see that again in a moment.
And behold, the same horn made war with
the saints and prevailed against them.
I'll overcome them.
It may tell you there will be nobody
who'll overcome the church.
My Lord said, I'll build the church, and
the gates of hell shall not prevail.
So it can't be the church where you
home and learn your Bible.
My son, you boys, I get fed up
talking to you.
You're so stupid.
You can't even read.
Yes, well, this is not the church, because
the church will never be prevailed against.
He says, I beheld, and the same horn
made war with the saints and prevailed against
them, until the ancient of days came, and
judgment was given to the saints of the
most high, and the time came that the
saints possessed the kingdom.
Thus he said, he's just starting to tell
Daniel the whole story now.
He says, the fourth beast shall be the
fourth kingdom upon the earth.
Isn't that easy now?
Because that is what they're told you, that
these were the kingdoms.
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome.
And only before world empires, God said, this
monster, this represents the fourth kingdom, this is
the Roman Empire.
And let's get the hold of this.
Verse 23, that he said, the fourth beast
shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth,
which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and
shall devour the whole earth.
And it did, you know.
And shall tread it down and break it
in pieces, and it did, you know.
And the ten horns out of this kingdom
are ten kings, watch it now, that shall
arise.
Oh, there are historians in this place, and
I know there are.
Boy's going to Queens reading history, all right.
Do you know anywhere in the Roman Empire,
back there where there were ten kings in
it, were there?
You never read that.
Shall arise, they're nearly there.
They're going to arise, they're nearly there.
And Hathas pushing it on to.
Now, just watch this.
And the ten horns out of this kingdom
are ten kings that shall arise.
And another shall arise after them.
And he shall be diverse from the first,
and he shall subdue three kings.
This is this man.
And he shall speak great words against the
most high.
And so were not the saints of the
most high.
That's the saints that would be there at
that particular time.
And think to change times and laws.
In fact, you know, the forerunner of this
is with us now.
There's a great majority of young folks on
the face of this earth who want to
change all the laws.
Oh, they want to have everything changed.
You've got to get the prisoners now severed
head and all the rest of it.
Marriage doesn't matter anymore.
Marriage law, they love.
My dear friends, almost all the old laws
are beginning to be attacked just now.
Adultery!
Why, this is the age of permissive society.
That's all they say.
The forerunner is with us now, isn't it?
And they all preach on the laws they're
trying to change even now.
But the Antichrist will help them along as
he comes.
He'll change times and laws, all right.
Now watch this statement.
And they shall be given into his hand.
Because God just allows evil men to do
things at times.
They think they're big sellers, you know.
They think they've taken over from God.
It's just that God will allow them to
do things.
They shall be given into his hand until
a time, and times, and the dividing of
time.
God is only going to allow this to
happen for a time.
He has the time measured out.
Now when he talks about a time, and
times, and dividing of time, many of the
great bible scholars believe, and I believe, that
the word time is just year.
And times would be two years.
So that it's a year, and two years,
and half a year, the dividing of time.
Three and a half years.
Now I want you to mark that now,
will you please?
You mark the word man, you mark the
word mouth, you will mark the word month.
Forty-two months is three and a half
years.
Three-twelve is thirty-six, and six is
forty-two.
So that if you young people get the
hold of the man, and the mouth, and
the month, then I'll show you a whole
lot of things in your bible.
Let me go over to 2 Thessalonians for
a moment or two.
2 Thessalonians, and we're at the
second chapter.
And Paul is writing to these saints at
Thessalonica, and they were only young believers, this
church wasn't long formed.
And in verse one of chapter two he
says, Now we beseech you brethren, you can
see he's writing to believers, by the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our
gathering together unto him.
You see he's just telling them Christ's coming,
and we're going to rise to meet him,
our gathering together unto him.
He says, Now I'm beseeching you by these
facts, that you be not soon shaken in
mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor
by word, nor by letter, as from us.
Somebody had written a letter to these Thessalonians,
and put Paul's name to it.
And they had said things that were not
true, and they annoyed these young people, and
Paul said, Now look I beseech you, don't
be troubled, don't be upset, the Lord will
come first, and we'll rise to meet him.
What are you worrying about?
You don't need to worry about Keith, or
Wilson, or Pipe and all.
You don't need to worry, the Lord is
coming.
He said this, verse three, Let no man
deceive you by any means, for that day,
that day that we're thinking about, shall not
come, except there come a falling away first.
You know there's going to come an apostasy.
A terrible apostasy, except there come a falling
away first on that man of sin, and
that's a good man.
Because this man that's coming, you know, this
is his title really, he's the man of
sin.
That's a terrible title for this leader of
the common market, man of sin.
Now I want you to watch this.
The son of perdition, who opposes and exalts
himself above all that is called God.
You see, he speaks against God.
He opposes, and he exalts himself.
He's the most, because you've got the man
and the most here together.
And you'll find it says this, who opposes
and exalts himself above all that is called
God or that is worshipped, so that he
as God sittheth in the temple of God.
You know at this moment, our friend sitting
down the left here, Mr. McCormick gave me
a piece of paper one night, and it
was from the New York Times, it's very
wonderful.
And the great big God in the New
York Times was put there by Jews asking
all the millionaire Jews in New York to
subscribe to the building of the temple.
Because the Jews are going to build a
temple in Jerusalem.
They've got the ground, and they've got the
old temple away out of the road, and
they're going to build it.
But you know, the Antichrist will take it
all for someone, and he'll sit in the
temple, and he'll say he's God, and rule
betide you if you say he's not.
I want you to watch this, this is
a month alright.
It says this here, who opposes and exalts
himself above all that is called God or
that is worshipped, so that he as God
sittheth in the temple of God, showing himself
that he is God.
Remember ye not that when I was yet
with you I told you these things.
And now you know what withholdeth, you know
what's keeping this back, that he might be
revealed in his time, do you know what's
keeping it back?
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work.
Only he who now let us will let.
You know there's somebody hindering this, until he
be taken out of the way.
Who is this that's hindering?
Well it can't be a human.
There's nobody could hinder the devil from putting
the Antichrist on the market, is there?
It's just because the Holy Ghost is down
here.
You know God sent the Holy Ghost to
form the church, and he's in every believer,
every one of them, good, bad and little.
He's in all the believers.
And until the believers are taken out of
the way and the Holy Ghost is taken
out, this man can't be revealed.
Now if we're near to the formation fully
of the common market, and the Jews are
beginning to build their temple, and the church
must go before this little horn is seen,
then we must be terribly near to the
going bit.
We're nearer than what you think.
Because of these ten toves are seen now,
and these ten horns are seen, and out
of these ten horns, and there's only three
and a half years, remember, out of these
ten horns is to come this man of
sin, and we must go away first before
he comes.
We must be terribly near to going.
Mind you, you know my problem these days.
You know, I know I'll solve the problem
that's before me.
I know I'll solve it.
I've got faith to know that.
I won't make a blunder.
You know, I never made a blunder in
the torn on the road in my life.
I made millions of blunders, but not when
I was put against the wall at any
time.
I just take my time with God, and
I'll shut everybody out of our room, and
I'll get it out with God.
But my problem is this, and you would
know this, that I happen to know Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and
right through to Revelation.
And I could close my eyes now and
tell you what's in every chapter in Genesis
and what's in every chapter in Exodus.
So any bother, give me no bother.
Now when I'm weeping on God's, there's so
many things that I know that could be
the answer to my problem.
And I've got so many of them, because
when I was thinking how near we are
to the Lord's coming, I could almost hear
a voice saying, Occupy till I come.
And that would mean I would occupy till
I come.
And then on the other hand, as I
gaze at the Lord's coming, there might come
in a voice saying, Why stand ye gazing
into heaven?
Go back to the city.
Because that's what he said to the men
there.
So that if you know a whole lot
of things, it doesn't help you, you know.
I don't need to depend on my knowledge
or I'll get into trouble.
I need to meet the Lord.
It's not what I know that will save
me.
I just need to trust Him.
I need to shout hard, and He knows
that.
And He will, you know.
He'll not let me down.
But you can see how near we are
to the coming of the Lord.
We're very near.
Now watch this.
Just leave that for a moment and go
to Revelation 13.
Book of the Revelation 13.
And this is John on the Isle of
Patmos.
And there's a long time between Daniel and
John, isn't there?
This is the Apostle John.
Verse 1, Revelation 13, verse 1.
And I stood upon the sand of the
sea, and saw beasts rise up out of
the sea, having seven heads and ten horns,
and upon his horns ten clouds.
Upon his head the name of blasphemy.
And the beast which I saw was like
unto a leopard, and his feet were as
the feet of a bear, and his mouth
as the mouth of a lion.
And the dragon, and the dragon's the devil,
the dragon gave him his power and his
feet and great authority.
And I saw one of his heads as
it were wounded to death, and his deadly
wound was healed, and all the world wondered
after the beast.
And they worshipped the dragon which gives power
unto the beast.
And they worshipped the beast saying, who is
like unto the beast who is able to
make war with him.
And there was given unto him a mouth,
because you've seen the man now, you see
the mouth, speaking great things in blasphemy.
And power was given unto him to continue,
quick now, forty and two months.
Because I didn't print that, you know.
I just wouldn't be capable of printing that.
Because you have the same man and the
same mouth and the same month.
Because this is the man of faith.
Ah yes, he's going to arise all right.
You see what I want to do is
this, some of you won't know what I'm
arguing about, and it's a blessing you don't.
There are some amillennialists in here, the dopes
that they are of course, they're the dopes,
pity on them.
They try to tell me, you see, that
this man appeared there and here and yonder.
When Daniel talks, they say, oh, just a
year or two after that, you know.
Now hold your thumbs on, John came a
long time after Daniel.
And John is writing in AD 96, which
is 96 years after the birth of Christ,
which is 60 years after his death.
And he's talking about the man.
It's yet to be.
Ah, but we're near to the place.
The ten tolls are being formed.
And these great smart elics of politicians that
we have, they don't know what they're forming.
And out of the ten tolls and the
ten horns, there's this man.
This mouse who will continue for 42 months.
Have a look at this now.
This is Revelation chapter 11.
And this is John.
And there was given me, verse 1, and
there was given me a reed like onto
a rod.
And the angel stood saying, rise and measure
the temple of God.
Because he could see the temples built here,
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.
Jews are going to build a temple, but
the court is going to be given to
the Gentiles.
And the holy city, Jerusalem, shall they, the
Gentiles, tread on the foot forty and two
months, three and a half years, same time,
same period.
Here's a lovely interesting thing.
And I will give power unto my two
witnesses, because God will have witnesses even there.
And they shall prophesy.
What's the word prophecy?
A thousand two hundred and three score days.
For Robert Anderson was a great prophetic student,
to whom all of us give thanks to
God.
For Robert Anderson could speak fluently about ten
languages.
He was the man who formed Scotland Yard
for Britain.
Great old saint.
Great prophetic student.
He was the man who laid the foundations
of Scotland Yard and told them how to
go about getting criminals.
I would think they would need him back
on the job again.
But Sir Robert Anderson said this, that when
you come to this book and you begin
to talk about time, if you study it
thoroughly, you will find that the calendar month
that we have is made because our earth
goes in its orbit round the sun.
It takes it three hundred and sixty-five
days and a quarter to go round in
its orbit, so that we leave out the
quarter and we get the next day one
and four, four quarters.
But Sir Robert Anderson said when you come
to the Bible, prophetic years are not three
hundred and fifty-five.
Prophetic days, years are only three hundred and
sixty days.
And if you multiply, you can do this
in your mind, if you multiply three hundred
and sixty by three and a half, here's
the figure you get.
It's right here before you.
You get one thousand two hundred and sixty
days.
That's three sixty multiplied by three and a
half.
And for the whole three and a half,
for the month that this man will be
on the earth, God will have witnesses to
match him.
Oh yes, he'll have many deaths around him.
Friends, what I want to do, let's get
back to Daniel.
We've got to finish this chapter and I'll
show you what I want to do more
than anything else tonight.
We're away down at Daniel 7 and we're
at verse 26.
But the judgment shall set, and they shall
take away his dominion, to consume and to
destroy it unto the end.
And the kingdom and dominion and the greatness
of the kingdom unto the whole heaven shall
be given to the people of the sense
of the most high, whose kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom, and all dominion shall serve and
obey him.
Heather 2 is the end of the matter.
As for me, Daniel, my provocations which much
troubled me, and my covenants changed in me.
No wonder.
But I kept the matter in my heart.
Look, look, let's get a hold of this
before we move.
One thing must be settled in our hearts
tonight.
This mighty vision given to Daniel, this mighty
vision given to John, this revelation given to
Paul, all tell us one thing tonight.
That this book is God's book.
Tells us this, that we're near to the
coming of the Lord.
As I've preached this since I was saved.
Friends, I tell you, as you sit on
the feet, we're near to Christ's coming.
And maybe the rebels will get keep in
Oxford.
Because there's a tremendous lot of people going
to leave this wee province of ours and
go heaven.
And a tremendous lot out of the south
too, you know.
The saints down there too.
Friends, seeing we know these things, what manner
of person should we be?
Well, it's time we woke up.
There's some of you that I've preached to
for 20 years.
And you've never been at a prayer meeting
once in 20 years.
Maybe God will come in and disturb your
nest on you.
You're half dead.
You don't own me, you know.
But you never will.
God can do what he wants to do,
you know.
It's time you gave yourself a bit of
a shake and woke up.
Not for my sake or this church's sake.
But for your children's sake.
Some of you are going to rise to
meet the Lord and let your children go
to hell.
And when you cry, the Lord will tell
you never prayed for them.
Well, wake up.
Give yourself a bit of a shake tonight.
We haven't so long to go down here.
Let's quit ourselves like men.
Like men.
Ten hundred and eighty-four.
Ten eighty-four.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun.
God his successive journeys run.
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore.
For moons shall wax and wane no more.
And it's a great joy to say tonight
that a big man came in at dinner
time today and knelt down with me and
gave his life to the Lord.
That's a great sign, you know.
We should praise the Lord for that.
Ten eighty-four.
First and last verses, please.
Dear Lord, we want to just take a
moment to thank thee for the wonder of
thy word.
This precious book, Lord, we haven't made enough
of it.
We read so many things and so much
and yet pay so little attention to the
word of words.
Lord, help us to hide it in our
hearts.
Part us now in thy fear and with
thy blessing take us to our homes in
safety.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.